1 Raja-raja 22:30

22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ¹  into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.

1 Raja-raja 20:29

20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

1 Raja-raja 22:35

22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.

1 Raja-raja 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ²  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ³  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ⁴  you will pay with your life or with a talent ⁵  of silver.’ ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 14:30

14:30 Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.

1 Raja-raja 15:16

15:16 Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 22:1

Ahab Dies in Battle

22:1 There was no war between Syria and Israel for three years. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 20:26

20:26 In the spring ⁹  Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army ¹⁰  and marched to Aphek to fight Israel. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 14:19

Jeroboam’s Reign Ends

14:19 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including the details of his battles and rule, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ¹² 

1 Raja-raja 20:14

20:14 Ahab asked, “By whom will this be accomplished?” ¹³  He answered, “This is what the Lord says, ‘By the servants of the district governors.’” Ahab ¹⁴  asked, “Who will launch the attack?” He answered, “You will.”

1 Raja-raja 20:18

20:18 He ordered, “Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive.” ¹⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 22:31

22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; ¹⁶  fight only the king of Israel.”

1 Raja-raja 22:45

22:45 The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, including his successes and military exploits, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 2:5

2:5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me – how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. ¹⁸  During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; ¹⁹  when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet. ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 8:44

8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ²¹  and they direct their prayers to the Lord ²²  toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ²³ 

1 Raja-raja 12:21

12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin ²⁴  to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Raja-raja 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ²⁵  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ²⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 15:7

15:7 The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ²⁷  Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.

1 Raja-raja 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ²⁸  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

1 Raja-raja 20:25

20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. ²⁹  Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. ³⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 22:15

22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” ³¹ 

1 Raja-raja 20:11

20:11 The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.” ³² 

1 Raja-raja 20:21

20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated ³³  Syria.

1 Raja-raja 22:34

22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, ³⁴  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ³⁵  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ³⁶  because I’m wounded.”

1 Raja-raja 22:43

22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. ³⁷  (22:44) ³⁸  However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

[22:30]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

[20:39]  ² tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ³ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ⁵ 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 75 pounds of silver.

[20:39]  ⁶ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

[15:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.”

[22:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they lived three years without war between Aram and Israel.”

[20:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”

[20:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “mustered Aram.”

[20:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and went up to Aphek for battle with Israel.”

[14:19]  ¹² tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he ruled, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

[20:14]  ¹³ tn The words “will this be accomplished” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “if they come in peace, take them alive; if they come for battle, take them alive.”

[22:31]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “small or great.”

[22:45]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoshaphat, and his strength that he demonstrated and how he fought, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[2:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “what he did to the two commanders…and he killed them.”

[2:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he shed the blood of battle in peace.”

[2:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he shed the blood of battle when he killed which is on his waist and on his sandal[s] which are on his feet.” That is, he covered himself with guilt and his guilt was obvious to all who saw him.

[8:44]  ²¹ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[8:44]  ²² tn Or perhaps “to you, O Lord.” See 2 Chr 6:34.

[8:44]  ²³ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[12:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”

[12:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

[12:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

[15:7]  ²⁷ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Abijah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[20:23]  ²⁸ tn Or “servants.”

[20:25]  ²⁹ tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”

[20:25]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”

[22:15]  ³¹ sn “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when it is revealed that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 14 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of the Lord; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word itself is deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 16), does Micaiah do so.

[20:11]  ³² sn The point of the saying is that someone who is still preparing for a battle should not boast as if he has already won the battle. A modern parallel would be, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”

[20:21]  ³³ tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”

[22:34]  ³⁴ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[22:34]  ³⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:34]  ³⁶ tn Heb “camp.”

[22:43]  ³⁷ tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

[22:43]  ³⁸ sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.