1 Raja-raja 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ¹  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ²  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ³  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ⁵  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Raja-raja 7:8

7:8 The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. ⁶  He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 14:10

14:10 So I am ready to bring disaster ⁸  on the dynasty ⁹  of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ¹⁰  I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ¹²  just as the Lord had predicted ¹³  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Raja-raja 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ¹⁴  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ¹⁵  That would not be fair, ¹⁶  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ¹⁷  the Lord from my youth.

[2:42]  ¹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ² tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

[2:42]  ³ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[6:1]  ⁵ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his house where he lived, the other court [i.e., as opposed to the great court], separated from the house belonging to the hall, was like this work [i.e., this style of architecture].”

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.”

[14:10]  ⁸ sn Disaster. There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The word translated “disaster” (רָעָה, ra’ah) is from the same root as the expression “you have sinned” in v. 9 (וַתָּרַע [vattara’], from רָעַע, [ra’a’]). Jeroboam’s sins would receive an appropriate punishment.

[14:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[14:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and I will cut off from Jeroboam those who urinate against a wall (including both those who are) restrained and let free (or “abandoned”) in Israel.” The precise meaning of the idiomatic phrase עָצוּר וְעָזוּב (’atsur vÿ’azuv) is uncertain. For various options see HALOT 871 s.v. עצר 6 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 107. The two terms are usually taken as polar opposites (“slaves and freemen” or “minors and adults”), but Cogan and Tadmor, on the basis of contextual considerations (note the usage with אֶפֶס [’efes], “nothing but”) in Deut 32:36 and 2 Kgs 14:26, argue convincingly that the terms are synonyms, meaning “restrained and abandoned,” and refer to incapable or incapacitated individuals.

[14:10]  ¹¹ tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” Manure was sometimes used as fuel (see Ezek 4:12, 15). However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I will sweep away the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away manure it is gone” (cf. ASV, NASB, TEV). Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.

[15:29]  ¹² tn Heb “and when he became king, he struck down all the house of Jeroboam; he did not leave any breath to Jeroboam until he destroyed him.”

[15:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[18:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ¹⁶ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).