1 Raja-raja 2:4

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, ¹  ‘If your descendants watch their step ²  and live faithfully in my presence ³  with all their heart and being, ⁴  then,’ he promised, ⁵  ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ ⁶ 

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 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ¹¹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹²  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹³  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹⁴  them,

1 Raja-raja 8:47

8:47 When your people ¹⁵  come to their senses ¹⁶  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; ¹⁷  we have done evil.’

1 Raja-raja 9:4

9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹⁸ 

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 ¹⁹  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ²⁰  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ²¹  you will pay with your life or with a talent ²²  of silver.’ ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 21:6

21:6 He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’” ²⁴ 

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “guard their way.”

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

[2:4]  ⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[2:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[2:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

[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.”

[8:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:47]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:47]  ¹⁶ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[8:47]  ¹⁷ tn Or “done wrong.”

[9:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.

[20:39]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “middle.”

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

[20:39]  ²¹ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ²² 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]  ²³ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

[21:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “While I was talking…, I said…, he said….” Ahab’s explanation is one lengthy sentence in the Hebrew text, which is divided in the English translation for stylistic reasons.