1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ¹  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ²  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ³  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁴ 

1 Kings 5:8-9

5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received ⁵  the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. ⁶  5:9 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. ⁷  There I will separate the logs ⁸  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ⁹ 

1 Kings 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹⁰  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹¹ 

1 Kings 13:6

13:6 The king pled with ¹²  the prophet, ¹³  “Seek the favor of ¹⁴  the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor ¹⁵  and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 13:17-18

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ¹⁷  ‘Do not eat or drink ¹⁸  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, ¹⁹  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, ²⁰  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” ²¹  But he was lying to him. ²² 

1 Kings 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers ²³  and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. ²⁴ 

1 Kings 20:7

20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders ²⁵  of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. ²⁶  Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”

[2:42]  ¹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[5:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “heard.”

[5:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”

[5:9]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[12:9]  ¹³ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[13:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

[13:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

[13:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “appease the face of.”

[13:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”

[13:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

[13:17]  ²² tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ²⁸ tn Or “deceiving him.”

[18:19]  ²⁹ tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.

[18:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

[20:7]  ³³ tn Heb “elders.”

[20:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”