1 Raja-raja 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ¹  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ²  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Raja-raja 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ³  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ⁴  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet ⁶  long, six feet ⁷  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ⁸  high.

1 Raja-raja 8:35

8:35 “The time will come when ⁹  the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹⁰  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹¹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹²  them,

1 Raja-raja 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ¹³  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ¹⁴  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 10:5

10:5 the food in his banquet hall, ¹⁶  his servants and attendants, ¹⁷  their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 10:7

10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ¹⁹  Your wisdom and wealth ²⁰  surpass what was reported to me.

1 Raja-raja 13:18

13:18 The old prophet then said, ²¹  “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, ²²  ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” ²³  But he was lying to him. ²⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 14:5

14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. ²⁵  When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”

[1:51]  ¹ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ² tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:15]  ³ tn Or “kingship.”

[2:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

[2:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”

[7:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “three cubits.”

[8:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 35-36a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[8:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[8:35]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text has “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “to answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“to afflict”).

[8:39]  ¹³ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[8:39]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[10:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[10:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[10:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[10:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

[10:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “good.”

[13:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he said to him.”

[13:18]  ²² tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:18]  ²³ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:18]  ²⁴ tn Or “deceiving him.”

[13:18]  sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.

[14:5]  ²⁵ sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.