2:7 “Treat fairly 1 the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, 2 because they helped me 3 when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.
12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 4 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. 7
1 tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”
2 tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”
3 tn Heb “drew near to.”
4 tn Heb “came.”
7 tn Heb “What to me and to you, man of God, that you have come.”
8 tn Heb “to make me remember.”
10 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
13 tn Or “swear an oath by.”