8:1 5 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 6 Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). 7
17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 8 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 9
17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 10 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 11 17:2 The Lord told him: 12
19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song.
67:1 May God show us his favor 20 and bless us! 21
May he smile on us! 22 (Selah)
67:2 Then those living on earth will know what you are like;
all nations will know how you deliver your people. 23
83:18 Then they will know 24 that you alone are the Lord, 25
the sovereign king 26 over all the earth.
39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 28
1 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
2 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
3 tn Heb “fear.”
4 tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
5 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
7 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
9 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
10 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
13 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
14 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
17 tn Heb “and the word of the
21 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
25 tn Or “disciplined.”
26 tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.
27 tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).
29 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
30 tn Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).
33 sn Psalm 67. The psalmist prays for God’s blessing upon his people and urges the nations to praise him for he is the just ruler of the world.
34 tn Or “have mercy on us.”
35 tn The prefixed verbal forms are understood as jussives expressing the psalmist’s prayer. Note the jussive form יָאֵר (ya’er) in the next line.
36 tn Heb “may he cause his face to shine with us.”
37 tn Heb “to know in the earth your way, among all nations your deliverance.” The infinitive with -לְ (lamed) expresses purpose/result. When God demonstrates his favor to his people, all nations will recognize his character as a God who delivers. The Hebrew term דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, “way”) refers here to God’s characteristic behavior, more specifically, to the way he typically saves his people.
41 tn After the preceding jussives (v. 17), the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose (“so that they may know”) or result.
42 tn Heb “that you, your name [is] the
43 tn Traditionally “the Most High.”
45 tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”
49 sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The