1 Raja-raja 19:19

19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.

1 Raja-raja 19:21

19:21 Elisha ¹  went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. ²  He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Raja-raja 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign, ³  Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. ⁴  Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; ⁵  Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, ⁶  just as the Lord had warned ⁷  through Joshua son of Nun. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 18:23

18:23 Let them bring us two bulls. Let them choose one of the bulls for themselves, cut it up into pieces, and place it on the wood. But they must not set it on fire. I will do the same to the other bull and place it on the wood. But I will not set it on fire.

1 Raja-raja 16:15

Zimri’s Reign over Israel

16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri’s revolt took place while the army was deployed ⁹  in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Raja-raja 13:13

13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it

1 Raja-raja 6:15

6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters ¹⁰  of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

1 Raja-raja 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 7:11

7:11 Above the foundation ¹²  the best ¹³  stones, chiseled to the right size, ¹⁴  were used along with cedar.

1 Raja-raja 13:27

13:27 He told his sons, “Saddle my donkey,” and they did so. ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 7:28

7:28 The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

1 Raja-raja 6:9

6:9 He finished building the temple ¹⁶  and covered it ¹⁷  with rafters ¹⁸  and boards made of cedar. ¹⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 6:37

6:37 In the month Ziv ²⁰  of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign ²¹  the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.

1 Raja-raja 6:31

6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. ²² 

1 Raja-raja 6:33

6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 13:23

13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, ²⁴  the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. ²⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 2:40

2:40 So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath.

1 Raja-raja 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ²⁶  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ²⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 7:12

7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. ²⁸ 

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 ²⁹  side and called it Jakin; ³⁰  he erected the other pillar on the left ³¹  side and called it Boaz. ³² 

1 Raja-raja 18:29

18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, ³³  but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ³⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 6:6-7

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ³⁵  wide, the middle floor nine feet ³⁶  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ³⁷  feet wide. He made ledges ³⁸  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ³⁹  6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry ⁴⁰  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 7:2

7:2 He named ⁴¹  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ⁴²  it was 150 feet ⁴³  long, 75 feet ⁴⁴  wide, and 45 feet ⁴⁵  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Raja-raja 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ⁴⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 18:44

18:44 The seventh time the servant ⁴⁷  said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah ⁴⁸  then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” ⁴⁹ 

[19:21]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:21]  ² tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

[16:34]  ³ tn Heb “in his days.”

[16:34]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[16:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

[16:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

[16:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:34]  ⁸ sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

[16:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.

[6:15]  ¹⁰ tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[18:25]  ¹¹ tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

[7:11]  ¹² tn Heb “on top,” or “above.”

[7:11]  ¹³ tn Or “valuable” (see 5:17).

[7:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “according to the measurement of chiseled [stone].”

[13:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they saddled [it].”

[6:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”

[6:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the house.”

[6:9]  ¹⁸ tn The word occurs only here; the precise meaning is uncertain.

[6:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and rows with cedar wood.”

[6:37]  ²⁰ sn In the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[6:37]  ²¹ tn The words “of Solomon’s reign” are added for clarification. See v. 1.

[6:31]  ²² tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

[6:33]  ²³ tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

[13:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”

[13:23]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”

[6:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ²⁷ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[7:12]  ²⁸ tn Or “the porch of the temple.”

[7:21]  ²⁹ tn Or “south.”

[7:21]  ³⁰ sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

[7:21]  ³¹ tn Or “north.”

[7:21]  ³² 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.”

[18:29]  ³³ tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”

[18:29]  ³⁴ tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta include the following words here: “When it was time to offer the sacrifice, Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations: ‘Stand aside for the time being, and I will offer my burnt offering.’ So they stood aside and departed.”

[18:29]  sn In 2 Kgs 4:31 the words “there was no sound and there was no response” are used to describe a dead boy. Similar words are used here to describe the god Baal as dead and therefore unresponsive.

[6:6]  ³⁵ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ³⁶ tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ³⁷ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ³⁸ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ³⁹ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

[6:7]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.

[7:2]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ⁴² sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[7:2]  ⁴³ tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[10:29]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

[18:44]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:44]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”