1 Kings 1:25
1:25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment 1 they are having a feast 2 in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ 3
1 Kings 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. 4 During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; 5 when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet. 6
1 Kings 2:32
2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; 7 behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he 8 – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
1 Kings 5:6
5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
1 Kings 5:9
5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 9 There I will separate the logs 10 and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 11
1 Kings 18:44
18:44 The seventh time the servant 12 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 13 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 14
1 Kings 19:4
19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 15 and asked the Lord to take his life: 16 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 17
1 Kings 19:10
19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 18 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 19 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 20 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 21
1 Kings 19:14
19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 22 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 23 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 24 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 25
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “eating and drinking.”
3 tn Heb “let the king, Adonijah, live!”
4 tn Heb “what he did to the two commanders…and he killed them.”
5 tn Heb “he shed the blood of battle in peace.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”
8 tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”
9 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
10 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
11 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”
15 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
16 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
17 tn Heb “fathers.”
18 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
19 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
20 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
21 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
22 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
23 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
24 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
25 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”