21:8 She wrote out orders, 6 signed Ahab’s name to them, 7 and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders 8 to the leaders 9 and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. 10
18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” 12 18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, 13 and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped 14 around on the altar they had made. 15
1 tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.
2 tn Heb “the God.”
3 tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”
4 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the
5 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
7 tn Heb “scrolls.”
8 tn Heb “in the name of Ahab.”
9 tn Heb “scrolls.”
10 tn Heb “elders.”
11 tn Heb “to the nobles who were in his city, the ones who lived with Naboth.”
10 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
13 tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.
16 tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”
17 tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).
18 tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew