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 2:9

2:9 But now ⁶  don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; ⁷  make sure he has a bloody death.” ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁹  Please don’t refuse me.” ¹⁰  He said, ¹¹  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Raja-raja 2:36

2:36 Next the king summoned ¹²  Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem ¹³  and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! ¹⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 3:4

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ¹⁵  Solomon would offer up ¹⁶  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

1 Raja-raja 8:24

8:24 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ¹⁷  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 10:27

10:27 The king made silver as plentiful ¹⁹  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ²⁰  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. ²¹ 

1 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to ²²  other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 13:16

13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you ²⁴  or eat and drink ²⁵  with you in this place.

1 Raja-raja 14:11

14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family ²⁶  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

1 Raja-raja 15:27

15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab ²⁷  and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.

1 Raja-raja 16:21

Omri’s Reign over Israel

16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.

1 Raja-raja 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ²⁸  from Shemer for two talents ²⁹  of silver. He launched a construction project there ³⁰  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Raja-raja 16:33

16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he ³¹  did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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, ³²  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Raja-raja 18:3

18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ³³ 

1 Raja-raja 18:31

18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new ³⁴  name.” ³⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 20:40

20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” ³⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 21:18

21:18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.

1 Raja-raja 22:32

22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.

[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.”

[2:9]  ⁶ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

[2:20]  ⁹ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

[2:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

[2:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

[2:36]  ¹² tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:36]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:36]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”

[3:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ¹⁶ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[8:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[8:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[10:27]  ¹⁹ tn The words “as plentiful” are added for clarification.

[10:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he made.”

[10:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”

[11:4]  ²² tn Heb “bent his heart after.”

[11:4]  ²³ tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”

[13:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”

[13:16]  ²⁵ tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

[14:11]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

[15:27]  ²⁷ tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:24]  ²⁸ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.

[16:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

[16:33]  ³¹ tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:1]  ³² tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

[18:3]  ³³ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.

[18:31]  ³⁴ tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.

[18:31]  ³⁵ sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.

[20:40]  ³⁶ tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”