1 Raja-raja 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ¹  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ²  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ³  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁴  with the sword.’

1 Raja-raja 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ⁵  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ⁶  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ⁷  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ⁹  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ¹⁰  around on the altar they had made. ¹¹ 

[2:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ³ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “kill you.”

[14:15]  ⁵ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[14:15]  sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

[18:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ¹¹ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.