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 logs² and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”³

1 Kings 18:44

18:44 The seventh time the servant⁴ said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah⁵ then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’”⁶

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub⁷ and asked the Lord to take his life:⁸ “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”⁹

1 Kings 19:10

19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal¹⁰ to the Lord, the sovereign God,¹¹ even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,¹² torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”¹³

¹tn 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.

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

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

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”

⁷tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

⁸tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

⁹tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁰tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.

¹¹tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”

¹²tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”

¹³tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”