1 Raja-raja 2:7

2:7 “Treat fairly ¹  the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, ²  because they helped me ³  when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

1 Raja-raja 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ⁴  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ⁵  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ⁶ 

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 ⁷  the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 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 10:9

10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹²  you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 11:11

11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, ¹⁴  I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

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. ¹⁵  Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. ¹⁶ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

[2:7]  ² tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “drew near to.”

[2:26]  ⁴ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[2:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[2:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

[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.”

[10:9]  ¹² tn Or “delighted in.”

[10:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[11:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”

[15:23]  ¹⁵ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”