1 Raja-raja 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Raja-raja 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ²  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ³  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁴  floor.

1 Raja-raja 6:38

6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul ⁵  (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 9:5

9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, ⁷  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 12:7

12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 and followed ¹⁰  the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ¹¹  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 15:20

15:20 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ¹³  They conquered ¹⁴  Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 17:16

17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised ¹⁶  through Elijah.

1 Raja-raja 19:8

19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Raja-raja 20:17

20:17 The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.” ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:48

22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships ¹⁸  to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

[2:24]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[6:8]  ² tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ³ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[6:38]  ⁵ sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[6:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

[9:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[12:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

[12:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

[12:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:14]  ¹² tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

[15:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[15:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he struck down.”

[15:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and all Kinnereth together with all the land of Naphtali.”

[17:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “out, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[20:17]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[22:48]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.