1 Kings 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ¹  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ²  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ³ 

1 Kings 11:29

11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah ⁴  was wearing a brand new robe,

1 Kings 13:17

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ⁵  ‘Do not eat or drink ⁶  there; do not go back the way you came.’”

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ⁷  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁸  They went and reported what they had seen ⁹  in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; ¹⁰  the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

1 Kings 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up ¹¹  from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps ¹²  and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

² tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

³ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

⁴ tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.

⁷ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

⁸ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹² tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷ tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”