1 Raja-raja 3:9

3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind ¹  so he can make judicial decisions for ²  your people and distinguish right from wrong. ³  Otherwise ⁴  no one is able ⁵  to make judicial decisions for ⁶  this great nation of yours.” ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 9:7

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ⁸  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁹  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ¹⁰  among all the nations.

1 Raja-raja 22:34

22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, ¹¹  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ¹²  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ¹³  because I’m wounded.”

[3:9]  ¹ tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[3:9]  ² tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ³ tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[3:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[3:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “to judge.”

[3:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “your numerous people.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

[9:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

[9:7]  sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

[9:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[22:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[22:34]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “camp.”