1 Raja-raja 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

1 Raja-raja 22:14

22:14 But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

1 Raja-raja 2:7

2:7 “Treat fairly ¹  the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, ²  because they helped me ³  when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

1 Raja-raja 12:12

12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported ⁴  to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

1 Raja-raja 17:18

17:18 She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come ⁵  to me to confront me with ⁶  my sin and kill my son?”

1 Raja-raja 18:30

18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:16

22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in ⁸  the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”

1 Raja-raja 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁹  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ¹⁰  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ¹¹  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 5:8-9

5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received ¹³  the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. ¹⁴  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. ¹⁵  There I will separate the logs ¹⁶  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹⁸  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 13:6

13:6 The king pled with ²⁰  the prophet, ²¹  “Seek the favor of ²²  the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor ²³  and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 13:17-18

13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, ²⁵  ‘Do not eat or drink ²⁶  there; do not go back the way you came.’” 13:18 The old prophet then said, ²⁷  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, ²⁸  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” ²⁹  But he was lying to him. ³⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 18:19

18:19 Now send out messengers ³¹  and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. ³² 

1 Raja-raja 20:7

20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders ³³  of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. ³⁴  Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”

1 Raja-raja 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ³⁵  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ³⁶  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ³⁷  you will pay with your life or with a talent ³⁸  of silver.’ ³⁹ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

[2:7]  ² tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “drew near to.”

[12:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “came.”

[17:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “What to me and to you, man of God, that you have come.”

[17:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “to make me remember.”

[18:30]  ⁷ sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.

[22:16]  ⁸ tn Or “swear an oath by.”

[2:42]  ⁹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ¹¹ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ¹² tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[5:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “heard.”

[5:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”

[5:9]  ¹⁵ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[12:9]  ¹⁸ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[13:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”

[13:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).

[13:6]  ²² tn Heb “appease the face of.”

[13:6]  ²³ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”

[13:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”

[13:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the Lord.”

[13:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:18]  ²⁸ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:18]  ²⁹ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ³⁰ tn Or “deceiving him.”

[13:18]  sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.

[18:19]  ³¹ tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.

[18:19]  ³² tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”

[20:7]  ³³ tn Heb “elders.”

[20:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”

[20:39]  ³⁵ tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ³⁶ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ³⁷ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ³⁸ 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]  ³⁹ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”