1 Raja-raja 14:6

14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. ¹ 

1 Raja-raja 14:1

14:1 ² At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

1 Samuel 28:14

28:14 He said to her, “What about his appearance?” She said, “An old man is coming up! He is wrapped in a robe!”

Then Saul realized it was Samuel, and he bowed his face toward the ground and kneeled down.

Daniel 5:26-28

5:26 This is the interpretation of the words: ³  As for mene ⁴  – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end. 5:27 As for teqel – you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking. 5:28 As for peres ⁵  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

¹ tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”

² tc Some mss of the Old Greek lack vv. 1-20.

³ tn Or “word” or “event.” See HALOT 1915 s.v. מִלָּה.

⁴ tn The Aramaic term מְנֵא (mÿne’) is a noun referring to a measure of weight. The linkage here to the verb “to number” (Aram. מְנָה, mÿnah) is a case of paronomasia rather than strict etymology. So also with תְּקֵל (tÿqel) and פַרְסִין (farsin). In the latter case there is an obvious wordplay with the name “Persian.”

⁵ sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.