1 Kings 1:37

1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!”¹

1 Kings 2:9

2:9 But now² don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him;³ make sure he has a bloody death.”⁴

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected⁵ the king, for they realized⁶ that he possessed supernatural wisdom⁷ to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 12:11

12:11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier.⁸ My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”⁹

1 Kings 15:19

15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.¹⁰ See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”¹¹

1 Kings 16:21

Omri’s Reign over Israel

16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah,¹² “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Kings 19:7

19:7 The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.”¹³

¹tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”

²tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.

³tn Heb “what you should do to him.”

⁴tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”

⁵tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

⁶tn Heb “saw.”

⁷tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

⁸tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”

⁹tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture using poisonous insects, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound. Cf. CEV “whips with pieces of sharp metal.”

¹⁰tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

¹¹tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

¹²tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

¹³tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”