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 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁴  against the altar in Bethel ⁵  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁶  will certainly be fulfilled.”

[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.”

[13:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ⁶ 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.