1 Raja-raja 8:25

8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ¹  provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ ² 

1 Raja-raja 11:38

11:38 You must obey ³  all I command you to do, follow my instructions, ⁴  do what I approve, ⁵  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; ⁶  I will give you Israel.

1 Raja-raja 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ⁷  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ⁸  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ⁹  you will pay with your life or with a talent ¹⁰  of silver.’ ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ¹²  I will pay you silver for it.” ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ¹⁴  But I despise ¹⁵  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ¹⁶  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

[8:25]  ¹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[8:25]  ² tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”

[11:38]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “walk in my ways.”

[11:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”

[11:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

[20:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.

[20:39]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

[21:2]  ¹² tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

[21:2]  ¹³ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

[22:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

[22:8]  ¹⁵ tn Or “hate.”

[22:8]  ¹⁶ tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.