1 Kings 17:22

17:22 The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

1 Kings 17:21

17:21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ¹  the king, for they realized ²  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ³  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ⁴  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ⁵  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ⁶  you will pay with your life or with a talent ⁷  of silver.’ ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

² tn Heb “saw.”

³ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

¹ tn Heb “middle.”

² tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

³ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

⁴ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.

⁵ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”