1 Raja-raja 2:32

2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ¹  behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he ²  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

1 Raja-raja 3:11

3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, ³ 

1 Raja-raja 3:26

3:26 The real mother ⁴  spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. ⁵  She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” ⁶  But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

1 Raja-raja 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when ⁷  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ⁸  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁹  and pray for your help ¹⁰  in this temple,

1 Raja-raja 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ¹¹  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹²  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹³  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up ¹⁵  from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps ¹⁶  and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 20:42

20:42 The prophet ¹⁸  then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” ¹⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ²⁰  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ²¹  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ²²  and would not eat.

1 Raja-raja 21:29

21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse ²³  before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 22:19

22:19 Micaiah ²⁵  said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

[2:32]  ¹ tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”

[2:32]  ² tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

[3:11]  ³ tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”

[3:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “the woman whose son was alive.”

[3:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”

[3:26]  ⁶ tn The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.

[8:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:33]  ⁸ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[14:15]  ¹¹ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[14:15]  sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

[16:2]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.

[16:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

[16:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”

[20:42]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:42]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”

[21:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

[21:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

[21:4]  ²² tn Heb “turned away his face.”

[21:29]  ²³ tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.

[21:29]  ²⁴ tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”

[22:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.