1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors¹ of wheat as provision for his royal court,² as well as 20,000 baths³ of pure⁴ olive oil.⁵

1 Kings 11:31

11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’”⁶ They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do.⁷

1 Kings 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord⁸ he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”⁹

1 Kings 13:21

13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You¹⁰ have rebelled against the Lord¹¹ and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.

1 Kings 17:14

17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning,¹² “May the gods judge me severely¹³ if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”¹⁴

1 Kings 20:10

20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely¹⁵ if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.”¹⁶

1 Kings 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army?¹⁷ Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

¹sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

²tn Heb “his house.”

³tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

⁴tn Or “pressed.”

⁵tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

⁶tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

⁷tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

¹¹tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

¹²sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

¹⁶tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord.”

²¹tn Heb “saying.”

²²tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

²³tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

²⁶tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

²⁷tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”

³¹tn Heb “this great horde.”