1 Kings 8:40

8:40 Then they will obey ¹  you throughout their lifetimes as ²  they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

1 Kings 1:50

1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ³ 

1 Kings 18:3

18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ⁴ 

1 Kings 17:13

17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. ⁵  But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ⁶  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ⁷  obey ⁸  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ⁹ 

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ¹⁰  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ¹¹  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ¹²  the king, for they realized ¹³  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ¹⁴  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ¹⁵  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ¹⁶  That would not be fair, ¹⁷  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ¹⁸  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 1:49

1:49 All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; ¹⁹  they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

1 Kings 19:3

19:3 Elijah was afraid, ²⁰  so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

[8:40]  ¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:40]  ² tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”

[1:50]  ³ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.

[18:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[17:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to your word.”

[8:43]  ⁹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ¹² tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[1:51]  ¹¹ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ¹² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[3:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

[3:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “saw.”

[3:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

[18:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ¹⁷ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

[1:49]  ¹⁷ tn Or “were afraid, trembled.”

[19:3]  ¹⁹ tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions support the reading “he was afraid.” The consonantal text (וַיַּרְא, vayyar’) is ambiguous and can be vocalized וַיַּרְא (from רָאָה, ra’ah, “to see”) or וַיִּרָא (vayyira’, from יָרֵא, yare’, “to fear”).