1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 1 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 2
3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 6 Solomon would offer up 7 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 23 When his sons came home, they told their father 24 everything the prophet 25 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 26
17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 37 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 38
19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 44 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 45
1 tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
2 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
3 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
4 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
5 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
6 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
7 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
8 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
9 tn Heb “look.”
10 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
11 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
12 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
13 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
14 tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.
15 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
16 tn Heb “said.”
17 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
18 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
19 tn Heb “I have heard.”
20 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
21 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
22 tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”
23 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
24 tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.
25 tn Heb “the man of God.”
26 tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”
27 tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”
28 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
29 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
30 tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”
31 tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”
32 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
33 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
34 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
35 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 150 pounds of silver.
36 tn Heb “he built up the hill.”
37 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
38 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
39 tn Heb “a little.”
40 tn Or “slaughtered.”
41 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the
42 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
43 tn Heb “and again lay down”
44 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
45 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”