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 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ⁴  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ⁵  obey ⁶  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ⁷ 

1 Kings 20:28

20:28 The prophet ⁸  visited the king of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Syrians said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over to you this entire huge army. ⁹  Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Kings 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ¹⁰  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ¹¹  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ¹²  you will pay with your life or with a talent ¹³  of silver.’ ¹⁴ 

[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.”

[8:43]  ⁴ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ⁵ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ⁶ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[20:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[20:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”

[20:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ¹¹ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ¹² tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.

[20:39]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”