1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 11:13

11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave ⁴  your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ⁵  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ⁶  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ⁷ 

1 Kings 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” ⁸ 

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ⁷ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ⁸ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[18:25]  ¹⁰ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.