1 Raja-raja 2:31

2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family ¹  the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. ² 

1 Raja-raja 7:9

7:9 All of these were built with the best ³  stones, chiseled to the right size ⁴  and cut with a saw on all sides, ⁵  from the foundation to the edge of the roof ⁶  and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Raja-raja 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. ⁷  On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁹  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ¹⁰  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 8:50

8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 15:23

15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹⁴  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 18:13

18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did ¹⁶  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

[2:31]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[2:31]  ² tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

[7:9]  ³ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “inside and out.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word טְפָחוֹת (tÿfakhot) is uncertain, but it is clear that the referent stands in opposition to the foundation.

[7:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

[7:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

[8:39]  ⁹ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[8:39]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:50]  ¹² tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”

[14:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

[15:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[15:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”

[18:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”