1 Raja-raja 2:9

2:9 But now ¹  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ²  make sure he has a bloody death.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 5:18

5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ⁴  along with men from Byblos, ⁵  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ⁶ 

[2:9]  ¹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

[2:9]  ³ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

[5:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ⁶ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”