1 Raja-raja 2:24

2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty ¹  for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

1 Raja-raja 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ²  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ³  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 8:56

8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure ⁵  just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 13:26

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ⁷  he said, “It is the prophet ⁸  who rebelled against the Lord. ⁹  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ¹⁰  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹²  against the altar in Bethel ¹³  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹⁴  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Raja-raja 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ¹⁵  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ¹⁶  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ¹⁷  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ¹⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 22:39

22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ 

[2:24]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[8:44]  ² tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ³ tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:56]  ⁵ tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”

[8:56]  ⁶ tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

[13:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

[13:32]  ¹² tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ¹³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[14:15]  ¹⁵ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

[14:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

[14:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

[14:15]  sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

[22:39]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”