1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you;¹ see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise² me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:31

2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family³ the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.⁴

1 Kings 11:31

11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel.⁵ When his sons came home, they told their father⁶ everything the prophet⁷ had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.⁸

1 Kings 14:4

14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.⁹ Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.¹⁰

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,¹¹ “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

1 Kings 18:5

18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas¹² so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill¹³ some of the animals.”

1 Kings 18:25

18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.”¹⁴

1 Kings 18:40

18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed¹⁵ them there.

1 Kings 18:43

18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.”¹⁶ Seven times Elijah sent him to look.¹⁷

¹tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²tn Or “swear an oath to.”

³tn Heb “house.”

⁴tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”

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⁶tn 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.

⁷tn Heb “the man of God.”

⁸tn 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.”

⁹tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”

¹⁰tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

¹¹tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”

¹²tn Heb “grass.”

¹³tn Heb “to cut off.”

¹⁴tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.

¹⁵tn Or “slaughtered.”

¹⁶sn 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 Lord’s prophet.

¹⁷tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”