1 Raja-raja 1:2

1:2 His servants advised ¹  him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, ²  to take care of the king’s needs ³  and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you ⁴  and keep our master, the king, warm.” ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 1:42

1:42 As he was still speaking, Jonathan ⁶  son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in, for ⁷  an important man like you must be bringing good news.” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 1:48

1:48 and said ⁹  this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because ¹⁰  today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹²  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ¹³  as well as 20,000 baths ¹⁴  of pure ¹⁵  olive oil. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 11:18

11:18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 12:4

12:4 “Your father made us work too hard. ¹⁸  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ¹⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 12:6

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ²⁰  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ²¹  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

1 Raja-raja 12:9

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me ²²  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, ²⁴  I could not go with you and eat and drink ²⁵  in this place.

1 Raja-raja 13:16

13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you ²⁶  or eat and drink ²⁷  with you in this place.

1 Raja-raja 17:20

17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”

1 Raja-raja 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ²⁸  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Raja-raja 18:4

18:4 When Jezebel was killing ²⁹  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

1 Raja-raja 18:29

18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, ³⁰  but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ³¹ 

1 Raja-raja 19:8

19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Raja-raja 22:27

22:27 Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water ³²  until I safely return.”’” ³³ 

[1:2]  ¹ tn Heb “said to.”

[1:2]  ² tn Heb “let them seek for my master, the king, a young girl, a virgin.” The third person plural subject of the verb is indefinite (see GKC 460 §144.f). The appositional expression, “a young girl, a virgin,” is idiomatic; the second term specifically defines the more general first term (see IBHS 230 §12.3b).

[1:2]  ³ tn Heb “and she will stand before the king.” The Hebrew phrase “stand before” can mean “to attend; to serve” (BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד).

[1:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and she will lie down in your bosom.” The expression might imply sexual intimacy (see 2 Sam 12:3 [where the lamb symbolizes Bathsheba] and Mic 7:5), though v. 4b indicates that David did not actually have sex with the young woman.

[1:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”

[1:42]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “look” at this point. The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh), “look draws attention to Jonathan’s arrival and invites the audience to view the scene through the eyes of the participants.

[1:42]  ⁷ tn Or “surely.”

[1:42]  ⁸ tn Heb “you are a man of strength [or “ability”] and you bring a message [that is] good.” Another option is to understand the phrase אִישׁ חַיִל (’ish khayil) in the sense of “a worthy man,” that is “loyal.” See also 1 Kgs 1:52 and HALOT 311 s.v. חַיִל.

[1:48]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”

[1:48]  ¹⁰ tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor.

[1:48]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”

[5:11]  ¹² sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

[5:11]  ¹⁵ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[11:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave to him a house and food and he said to him, and a land he gave to him.” Something seems to be accidentally omitted after “and he said to him.”

[12:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

[12:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, [vÿna’avdekha] “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל [haqel], “lighten”) indicates purpose (or result). The conditional sentence used in the translation above is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.

[12:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “stood before.”

[12:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[12:9]  ²² tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

[12:9]  ²³ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[13:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[13:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[13:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”

[13:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[18:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[18:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “cutting off.”

[18:29]  ³⁰ tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”

[18:29]  ³¹ 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.

[22:27]  ³² tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”

[22:27]  ³³ tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.