1 Raja-raja 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ¹  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ²  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 14:5

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ⁴  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

1 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up ⁵  from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps ⁶  and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

[2:15]  ¹ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ² tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

[14:5]  ⁴ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.

[16:2]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.

[16:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

[16:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”