1 Raja-raja 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ¹  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ²  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ³  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁴  with the sword.’

1 Raja-raja 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ⁵  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ⁶  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.” ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ⁸  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ⁹  around on the altar they had made. ¹⁰ 

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.’” ¹¹ 

[2:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ³ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “kill you.”

[2:26]  ⁵ tn Or “field.”

[2:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

[2:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

[18:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ¹⁰ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[21:6]  ¹¹ 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.