1 Raja-raja 6:7

6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry ¹  were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

1 Raja-raja 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ²  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ³  That would not be fair, ⁴  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ⁵  the Lord from my youth.

1 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ⁶  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ⁷  around on the altar they had made. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? ⁹  Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Raja-raja 20:30

20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ¹⁰  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ¹³  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ¹⁴  you will pay with your life or with a talent ¹⁵  of silver.’ ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 22:13

22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ¹⁷  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” ¹⁸ 

[6:7]  ¹ tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.

[18:12]  ² tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

[18:12]  ³ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

[18:12]  ⁴ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

[18:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

[18:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ⁸ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[20:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “this great horde.”

[20:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

[20:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”

[20:39]  ¹² tn Heb “middle.”

[20:39]  ¹³ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

[20:39]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

[20:39]  ¹⁵ 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]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

[22:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[22:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”