1 Kings 22:14

22:14 But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

1 Kings 22:2

22:2 In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit ¹  the king of Israel.

1 Kings 3:14

3:14 If you follow my instructions ²  by obeying ³  my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, ⁴  then I will grant you long life.” ⁵ 

1 Kings 5:16

5:16 besides 3,300 ⁶  officials who supervised the workers. ⁷ 

Isaiah 49:18

49:18 Look all around you! ⁸ 

All of them gather to you.

As surely as I live,” says the Lord,

“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;

you will put them on as if you were a bride.

Matthew 7:29

7:29 because he taught them like one who had authority, ⁹  not like their experts in the law. ¹⁰ 

Luke 1:17

1:17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord ¹¹  in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, ¹²  to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

¹ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

³ tn Or “keeping.”

⁴ tn Heb “walked.”

⁵ tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

⁶ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

⁷ tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

⁸ tn Heb “Lift up around your eyes and see.”

⁹ sn Jesus’ teaching impressed the hearers with the directness of its claim; he taught with authority. A study of Jewish rabbinic interpretation shows that it was typical to cite a list of authorities to make one’s point. Apparently Jesus addressed the issues in terms of his own understanding.

¹⁰ tn Or “their scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

¹¹ tn Grk “before him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² sn These two lines cover all relationships: Turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children points to horizontal relationships, while (turn) the disobedient to the wisdom of the just shows what God gives from above in a vertical manner.