1 Raja-raja 7:21

7:21 He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right ¹  side and called it Jakin; ²  he erected the other pillar on the left ³  side and called it Boaz. ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 and followed ⁵  the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. ⁶  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ⁸  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ⁹  They went and reported what they had seen ¹⁰  in the city where the old prophet lived.

[7:21]  ¹ tn Or “south.”

[7:21]  ² sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

[7:21]  ³ tn Or “north.”

[7:21]  ⁴ sn The meaning of the name Boaz is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בעז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name as בְּעֹז (be’oz, “in strength”) and to understand it as completing the verbal form on the first pillar. Taking the words together and reading from right to left, one can translate the sentence, “he establishes [it] in strength.”

[12:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and spoke to them according to.”

[12:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.”

[12:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” See the note on the same phrase in v. 11.

[13:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ¹⁰ tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.