1 Kings 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, ¹  I could not go with you and eat and drink ²  in this place.

1 Kings 13:17-18

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ³  ‘Do not eat or drink ⁴  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, ⁵  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, ⁶  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” ⁷  But he was lying to him. ⁸ 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ⁹  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹⁰  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹¹  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹² 

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ¹³  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Kings 18:5

18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas ¹⁴  so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill ¹⁵  some of the animals.”

1 Kings 18:13

18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did ¹⁶  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

1 Kings 18:33

18:33 He arranged the wood, cut up the bull, and placed it on the wood.

[13:8]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[13:8]  ² tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:17]  ³ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

[13:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ⁸ tn Or “deceiving him.”

[14:15]  ⁷ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[17:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “a little.”

[18:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “grass.”

[18:5]  ¹² tn Heb “to cut off.”

[18:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”