13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 3 When his sons came home, they told their father 4 everything the prophet 5 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 6
8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. 8
8:33 “The time will come when 9 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 10 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 11 and pray for your help 12 in this temple,
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 18 Jeroboam 19 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 20 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 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.
1 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
1 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
2 tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.
3 tn Heb “the man of God.”
4 tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”
1 tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
1 tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.
1 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
3 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
4 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
1 sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.
2 sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.
3 tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”
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2 tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”
1 tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
1 tn Heb “the man of God.”
2 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”
1 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
2 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
3 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.
1 tn Heb “house.”