1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ³ 

1 Kings 15:17

15:17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:37

8:37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust ⁵  invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, ⁶  or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

1 Kings 20:42

20:42 The prophet ⁷  then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” ⁸ 

[2:26]  ¹ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ² tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[15:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[8:37]  ⁷ tn Actually two Hebrew terms appear here, both of which are usually taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view.

[8:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”

[20:42]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:42]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”