2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 5 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 6
13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 29 he continued to appoint common people 30 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 31
21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 35 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 36 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 37 and would not eat.
1 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
2 tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”
3 tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”
4 tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”
5 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
6 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
7 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
8 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
9 tn Heb “many days.”
9 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
11 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
12 tn Or “keep.”
13 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
14 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
15 tn Heb “When he heard this word.”
16 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
17 tc Many Hebrew
18 tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”
19 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
20 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
21 tn Heb “here or there.”
22 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
21 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
23 tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”
24 tn Heb “and they heard the word of the
25 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
26 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
27 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
27 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
28 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
29 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”
29 tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.
30 tn Heb “the God.”
31 tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”
31 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
32 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
33 tn Heb “turned away his face.”