1 Kings 2:16

2:16 Now I’d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don’t refuse me.”¹ She said, “Go ahead and ask.”²

1 Kings 1:18

1:18 But now, look, Adonijah has become king! But you,³ my master the king, are not even aware of it!⁴

1 Kings 18:11

18:11 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’⁵

1 Kings 1:12

1:12 Now⁶ let me give you some advice as to how⁷ you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.

1 Kings 5:4

5:4 But now the Lord my God has made me secure on all fronts; there is no adversary or dangerous threat.

1 Kings 8:26

8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made⁸ to your servant, my father David, be realized.⁹

1 Kings 18:14

18:14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’¹⁰ but he will kill me.”

1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now¹¹ don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him;¹² make sure he has a bloody death.”¹³

1 Kings 3:7

3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced.¹⁴

1 Kings 12:11

12:11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier.¹⁵ My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”¹⁶

1 Kings 22:23

22:23 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

1 Kings 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty¹⁷ for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers¹⁸ and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports.¹⁹

1 Kings 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel,²⁰ provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’²¹

¹tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

²tn Heb “She said, ‘Speak!’”

³tc Instead of עַתָּה (’attah, “now”) many Hebrew mss, along with the Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate, have the similar sounding independent pronoun אַתָּה (’attah, “you”). This reading is followed in the present translation.

⁴tn Heb “you do not know [about it].”

⁵tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”

⁷tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.

⁸tn Or “so that.”

⁹tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”

¹⁰tn Or “prove to be reliable.”

¹¹tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”

¹³tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

¹⁴tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

¹⁵tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”

¹⁸tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture using poisonous insects, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound. Cf. CEV “whips with pieces of sharp metal.”

¹⁹tn Heb “house.”

²¹tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.

²²tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

²³tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

²⁴tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”