11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against 3 the king. He was an Ephraimite 4 from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 5 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 6
20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”
1 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”
2 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
3 tn Heb “raised a hand against.”
4 tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).
4 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
5 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
5 tn Heb “Look, I have commanded.”
6 tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the
7 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
8 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
9 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”