1 Raja-raja 2:28

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ¹  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ²  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ⁴  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ⁵  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ⁷  Therefore ⁸  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 16:11

16:11 When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. ¹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 22:18

22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”

[2:28]  ¹ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

[2:28]  ² tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:28]  ³ sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.

[8:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

[11:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[13:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”

[13:22]  ⁸ tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

[13:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

[16:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”