1 Raja-raja 1:17

1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’

1 Raja-raja 1:30

1:30 I will keep ¹  today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”

1 Raja-raja 1:48

1:48 and said ²  this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because ³  today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced ⁵  a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: ⁶  The altar will be split open and the ashes ⁷  on it will fall to the ground.” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 13:14

13:14 and took off after the prophet, ⁹  whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet ¹⁰  from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

1 Raja-raja 13:31

13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹¹  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

1 Raja-raja 14:26

14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

1 Raja-raja 15:13

15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹²  from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Raja-raja 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ¹³  from Shemer for two talents ¹⁴  of silver. He launched a construction project there ¹⁵  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Raja-raja 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed ¹⁶  them there.

1 Raja-raja 20:16

20:16 They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily ¹⁷  in their quarters. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 22:17

22:17 Micaiah ¹⁹  said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

[1:30]  ¹ tn Or “carry out, perform.”

[1:48]  ² tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

[1:48]  ³ tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

[1:48]  ⁴ tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

[13:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

[13:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “spoken.”

[13:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

[13:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “will be poured out.”

[13:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[15:13]  ¹² tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

[16:24]  ¹³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ¹⁴ 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 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

[18:40]  ¹⁶ tn Or “slaughtered.”

[20:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”

[20:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[22:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.