1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ¹  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ²  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ³  floor.

1 Kings 8:28

8:28 But respond favorably to ⁴  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ⁵  the desperate prayer ⁶  your servant is presenting to you ⁷  today.

1 Kings 13:1

13:1 Just then ⁸  a prophet ⁹  from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, ¹⁰  as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.

1 Kings 13:29

13:29 The old prophet ¹¹  picked up the corpse of the prophet, ¹²  put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

[6:8]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ² tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ³ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[8:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “turn to.”

[8:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “by listening to.”

[8:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

[8:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “praying before you.”

[13:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.

[13:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “came by the word of the Lord to Bethel.”

[13:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.

[13:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the man of God.”