1 Raja-raja 20:37

20:37 He found another man and said, “Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely. ¹ 

1 Raja-raja 20:35

A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions

20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” ²  But the man refused to wound him.

1 Raja-raja 11:15

11:15 During David’s campaign against Edom, ³  Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

1 Raja-raja 20:21

20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated ⁴  Syria.

1 Raja-raja 16:10

16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 20:20

20:20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; ⁶  the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.

1 Raja-raja 20:29

20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

1 Raja-raja 15:20

15:20 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ⁷  They conquered ⁸  Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 20:36

20:36 So the prophet ¹⁰  said to him, “Because you have disobeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.

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 6:7

6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry ¹⁵  were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

1 Raja-raja 8:33

8:33 “The time will come when ¹⁶  your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ¹⁷  because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ¹⁸  and pray for your help ¹⁹  in this temple,

[20:37]  ¹ tn Heb “and the man wounded him, wounding and bruising.”

[20:35]  ² tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the Lord, ‘Wound me.’”

[11:15]  ³ tn Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”

[20:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”

[16:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”

[20:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “each struck down his man.”

[15:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[15:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “he struck down.”

[15:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and all Kinnereth together with all the land of Naphtali.”

[20:36]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[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).

[6:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.

[8:33]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[8:33]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:33]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”