1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned 1  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 2  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 3  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 4 

1 Kings 5:8-9

5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received 5  the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. 6  5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 7  There I will separate the logs 8  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 9 

1 Kings 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 10  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 11 

1 Kings 13:6

13:6 The king pled with 12  the prophet, 13  “Seek the favor of 14  the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor 15  and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. 16 

1 Kings 13:17-18

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 17  ‘Do not eat or drink 18  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, 19  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 20  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 21  But he was lying to him. 22 

1 Kings 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers 23  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. 24 

1 Kings 20:7

20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders 25  of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. 26  Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”

1 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

2 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

3 tn Heb “here or there.”

4 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

5 tn Heb “heard.”

6 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”

9 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

10 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

11 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

13 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

14 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

17 tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

18 tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

19 tn Heb “appease the face of.”

20 tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

21 tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”

21 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

22 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

25 tn Heb “and he said to him.”

26 tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

27 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

28 tn Or “deceiving him.”

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

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

33 tn Heb “elders.”

34 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”