1 Raja-raja 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Raja-raja 2:33

2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, ²  and his dynasty.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁴  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁵  as well as 20,000 baths ⁶  of pure ⁷  olive oil. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 7:21

7:21 He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right ⁹  side and called it Jakin; ¹⁰  he erected the other pillar on the left ¹¹  side and called it Boaz. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 8:21

8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors ¹³  when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Raja-raja 8:41

8:41 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation. ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ¹⁵  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 16:11

16:11 When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 17:18

17:18 She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come ¹⁸  to me to confront me with ¹⁹  my sin and kill my son?”

1 Raja-raja 18:3

18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ²⁰ 

[2:24]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:33]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[2:33]  ³ tn Heb “his throne.”

[5:11]  ⁴ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[7:21]  ⁹ tn Or “south.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰ sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

[7:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “north.”

[7:21]  ¹² sn The meaning of the name Boaz is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בעז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name as בְּעֹז (be’oz, “in strength”) and to understand it as completing the verbal form on the first pillar. Taking the words together and reading from right to left, one can translate the sentence, “he establishes [it] in strength.”

[8:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).

[8:41]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your name.” In the OT the word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[11:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

[11:27]  ¹⁶ sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[16:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”

[17:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “What to me and to you, man of God, that you have come.”

[17:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to make me remember.”

[18:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.