1 Raja-raja 2:9

2:9 But now ¹  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ²  make sure he has a bloody death.” ³ 

1 Raja-raja 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁴  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ⁵  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

[2:9]  ¹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

[2:9]  ³ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

[12:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “stood before.”

[12:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”