1 Raja-raja 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ¹  Please don’t refuse me.” ²  He said, ³  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Raja-raja 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. ⁴  The Lord will punish you for what you did. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 5:4

5:4 But now the Lord my God has made me secure on all fronts; there is no adversary or dangerous threat.

1 Raja-raja 8:38

8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ⁶  as they acknowledge their pain ⁷  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

1 Raja-raja 20:40

20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 21:26

21:26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, ⁹  just like the Amorites ¹⁰  whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ² tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

[2:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

[8:38]  ⁶ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[8:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”

[20:40]  ⁸ tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”

[21:26]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew word used here, גִלּוּלִים (gillulim) is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as אֱלִילִים (’elilim, “worthless things”) and הֲבָלִים (havalim, “vanities” or “empty winds”).

[21:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”