1 Kings 5:9

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. ¹  There I will separate the logs ²  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ³ 

1 Kings 18:44

18:44 The seventh time the servant ⁴  said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah ⁵  then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” ⁶ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ⁷  and asked the Lord to take his life: ⁸  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ⁹ 

1 Kings 19:10

19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal ¹⁰  to the Lord, the sovereign God, ¹¹  even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, ¹²  torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” ¹³ 

[5:9]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[18:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”

[19:4]  ⁷ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”

[19:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.

[19:10]  ¹¹ tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”

[19:10]  ¹² tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”

[19:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”