1 Kings 5:6

5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ¹  There I will separate the logs ²  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ³ 

1 Kings 22:49

22:49 Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,” ⁴  but Jehoshaphat refused.

1 Kings 22:2

22:2 In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit ⁵  the king of Israel.

1 Kings 20:36-37

20:36 So the prophet ⁶  said to him, “Because you have disobeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him. 20:37 He found another man and said, “Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁴ tn Heb “Let my servants go with your servants in the fleet.”

⁵ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and the man wounded him, wounding and bruising.”