1 Kings 20:15

20:15 So Ahab ¹  assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. ² 

1 Kings 11:28

11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; ³  when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe ⁴  of Joseph.

1 Kings 14:27

14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ⁵  who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

1 Kings 20:26-27

20:26 In the spring ⁶  Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army ⁷  and marched to Aphek to fight Israel. ⁸  20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks ⁹  of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

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 

[20:15]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:15]  ² tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”

[11:28]  ³ tn Heb “man of strength.”

[11:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[14:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “runners.”

[20:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”

[20:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “mustered Aram.”

[20:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “and went up to Aphek for battle with Israel.”

[20:27]  ⁹ tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.

[20:39]  ¹¹ tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ¹² tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ¹³ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”