1 Raja-raja 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, ¹  who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. ²  He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised ³  him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down ⁴  with the sword.’

1 Raja-raja 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁵  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ⁶  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ⁷  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 7:25

7:25 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ⁹ 

1 Raja-raja 8:20

8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. ¹⁰  I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor ¹¹  of the Lord God of Israel

1 Raja-raja 8:29

8:29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹²  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ¹³ 

1 Raja-raja 8:39

8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ¹⁴  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. ¹⁵  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 8:53

8:53 After all, ¹⁷  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ¹⁸  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Raja-raja 8:56

8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure ¹⁹  just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 13:26

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, ²¹  he said, “It is the prophet ²²  who rebelled against the Lord. ²³  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up ²⁴  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” ²⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 14:8

14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. ²⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 15:29

15:29 When he became king, he executed Jeroboam’s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed, ²⁷  just as the Lord had predicted ²⁸  through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Raja-raja 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign, ²⁹  Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. ³⁰  Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; ³¹  Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, ³²  just as the Lord had warned ³³  through Joshua son of Nun. ³⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ³⁵  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ³⁶ 

[2:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

[2:8]  ³ tn Or “swore an oath to.”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “kill you.”

[2:42]  ⁵ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[2:42]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “here or there.”

[2:42]  ⁸ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

[7:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

[8:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”

[8:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “name.”

[8:29]  ¹² tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[8:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[8:39]  ¹⁴ tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.

[8:39]  ¹⁵ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:53]  ¹⁷ tn Or “For.”

[8:53]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your inheritance.”

[8:56]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”

[8:56]  ²⁰ tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”

[13:26]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

[13:26]  ²² tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:26]  ²³ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[13:26]  ²⁴ tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

[13:26]  ²⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

[14:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

[15:29]  ²⁷ 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]  ²⁸ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:34]  ²⁹ tn Heb “in his days.”

[16:34]  ³⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[16:34]  ³¹ tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

[16:34]  ³² tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

[16:34]  ³³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:34]  ³⁴ sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

[20:25]  ³⁵ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ³⁶ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”