1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ¹  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 ²  around on the altar they had made. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ⁴  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ⁵  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ⁶  and would not eat.

[18:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ² tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ³ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[21:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

[21:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

[21:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “turned away his face.”