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 2:32

2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ⁵  behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he ⁶  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

1 Raja-raja 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 14:13

14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family ⁸  who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

1 Raja-raja 18:43

18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” ⁹  Seven times Elijah sent him to look. ¹⁰ 

[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.”

[2:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

[2:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

[14:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[14:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[18:43]  ⁹ sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the Lord’s prophet.

[18:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”