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 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁴  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ⁵  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ⁶  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 3:22

3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. ⁸ 

1 Kings 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ⁹ 

1 Kings 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ¹⁰  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ¹¹  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

1 Kings 21:15

21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ¹²  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”

[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.”

[2:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[3:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”

[21:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

[21:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”

[21:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.