1 Kings 11:28

11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; ¹  when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe ²  of Joseph.

1 Kings 18:39

18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! ³  The Lord is the true God!”

1 Kings 19:3

19:3 Elijah was afraid, ⁴  so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

[11:28]  ¹ tn Heb “man of strength.”

[11:28]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[18:39]  ³ tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).

[19:3]  ⁵ tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions support the reading “he was afraid.” The consonantal text (וַיַּרְא, vayyar’) is ambiguous and can be vocalized וַיַּרְא (from רָאָה, ra’ah, “to see”) or וַיִּרָא (vayyira’, from יָרֵא, yare’, “to fear”).