1 Raja-raja 8:53

8:53 After all, ¹  you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, ²  just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

1 Raja-raja 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ³  and asked the Lord to take his life: ⁴  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ⁵ 

[8:53]  ¹ tn Or “For.”

[8:53]  ² tn Heb “your inheritance.”

[19:4]  ³ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”