1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. ¹  They have remained there to this very day.

1 Kings 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ²  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ³  “May the gods judge me severely ⁴  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ⁵ 

1 Kings 19:19

19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

1 Kings 22:30

22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ⁶  into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.

[8:8]  ¹ tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”

[8:63]  ² tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[19:2]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[19:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[19:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

[22:30]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.