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
22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 14
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
3 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
4 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
5 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
7 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
8 tn Heb “the man of God.”
9 tn Heb “the mouth of the
10 tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”
11 tn Heb “according to the word of the
10 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
11 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
12 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
13 tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”