2:36 Next the king summoned 9 Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem 10 and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! 11
11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance 14 away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 15 11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 16 But he did not obey 17 the Lord’s command.
14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 30 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 31
18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. 40
19:9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” 48 But the man refused to wound him.
22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 52 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 53 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “did not know her.”
2 tn Or “disciplined.”
3 tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.
4 tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).
5 tn Heb “the king.”
6 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
7 tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”
8 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
9 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
11 tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”
12 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
13 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
14 tn Heb “bent his heart.”
15 sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.
16 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
17 tn Or “keep.”
18 tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”
19 tn Heb “and he said.”
20 sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the
21 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
22 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
23 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
24 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
25 tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).
26 tn Heb “the man of God.”
27 tn Heb “the man of God.”
28 tn Heb “the man of God.”
29 tn Heb “take in your hand.”
30 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
31 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
32 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
33 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
34 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
35 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
36 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
37 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
38 tn Traditionally, “the
39 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
40 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
41 tn Or “lay down.”
42 tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”
43 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
44 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.”
45 tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”
46 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
47 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
48 tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the
49 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
50 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
51 tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.
52 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
53 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”