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 8:57

8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

1 Kings 20:8

20:8 All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ³ 

1 Kings 20:11

20:11 The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.” ⁴ 

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ⁵  Therefore ⁶  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁷ 

1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now ⁸  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ⁹  make sure he has a bloody death.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ¹²  He said, ¹³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 17:13

17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. ¹⁴  But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ¹⁵  them there.

1 Kings 3:26

3:26 The real mother ¹⁶  spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. ¹⁷  She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” ¹⁸  But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ¹⁹  But I despise ²⁰  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ²¹  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

¹ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

² tn Heb “She said, ‘Speak!’”

³ tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”

⁵ sn The point of the saying is that someone who is still preparing for a battle should not boast as if he has already won the battle. A modern parallel would be, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”

⁷ tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

⁸ tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

⁹ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

⁹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

¹⁰ tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

¹¹ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

¹¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

¹² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

¹³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

¹³ tn Heb “according to your word.”

¹⁵ tn Or “slaughtered.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “the woman whose son was alive.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”

¹⁹ tn The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.

¹⁹ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

²⁰ tn Or “hate.”

²¹ tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.