1 Kings 2:3
Context2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 4
1 Kings 5:9
Context5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 5 There I will separate the logs 6 and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 7
1 Kings 21:2
Context21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, 8 I will pay you silver for it.” 9


[2:3] 1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
[2:3] 2 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
[2:3] 4 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
[5:9] 5 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
[5:9] 6 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
[5:9] 7 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”
[21:2] 9 tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”
[21:2] 10 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”