1 Kings 2:18

2:18 Bathsheba replied, “That’s fine, ¹  I’ll speak to the king on your behalf.”

1 Kings 22:13

22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ²  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” ³ 

1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ⁴  him ⁵  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ⁶ )

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. ⁷  Your servant will do as you say.” ⁸  So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. ⁹ 

1 Kings 22:18

22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ¹⁰  I will pay you silver for it.” ¹¹ 

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ¹²  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ¹³  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ¹⁴  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind ¹⁶  so he can make judicial decisions for ¹⁷  your people and distinguish right from wrong. ¹⁸  Otherwise ¹⁹  no one is able ²⁰  to make judicial decisions for ²¹  this great nation of yours.” ²² 

1 Kings 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ²³  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Kings 18:24

18:24 Then you ²⁴  will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” ²⁵  All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” ²⁶ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ²⁷  and asked the Lord to take his life: ²⁸  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ²⁹ 

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ³⁰  But I despise ³¹  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ³²  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

[2:18]  ¹ tn Heb “[It is] good!”

[22:13]  ² tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[22:13]  ³ tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”

[1:6]  ³ tn Or “disciplined.”

[1:6]  ⁴ 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.

[1:6]  ⁵ 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).

[2:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

[2:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

[2:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “many days.”

[21:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

[21:2]  ⁶ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

[2:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ⁸ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁹ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[3:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

[3:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[3:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[3:9]  ¹² tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “your numerous people.”

[14:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[18:24]  ⁹ tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.

[18:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the God.”

[18:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”

[19:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers.”

[22:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

[22:8]  ¹² tn Or “hate.”

[22:8]  ¹³ tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.