1 Raja-raja 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ¹  There I will separate the logs ²  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 11:38

11:38 You must obey ⁴  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ⁵  do what I approve, ⁶  and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; ⁷  I will give you Israel.

1 Raja-raja 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ⁸  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ⁹  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ¹⁰  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

[5:9]  ¹ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

[11:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.

[11:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

[12:32]  ⁸ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

[12:32]  ⁹ sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

[12:32]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”