4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.
5:1 (5:15) 11 King Hiram of Tyre 12 sent messengers 13 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.
20:22 The prophet 25 visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. 26 Determine 27 what you must do, for in the spring 28 the king of Syria will attack 29 you.”
22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 33 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 34 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria. 40 He ruled for two years over Israel.
1 tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.
2 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
3 tn Heb “over.”
4 tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.
5 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
6 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
7 tn Heb “many days.”
8 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
9 tn Heb “saw.”
10 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
11 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
12 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
13 tn Heb “his servants.”
14 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
15 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
16 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.
17 sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.
18 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
19 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
20 tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”
21 tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
22 tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”
23 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
24 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
25 tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).
26 tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”
27 tn Heb “know and see.”
28 tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”
29 tn Heb “go up against.”
30 tn Heb “Do you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, and we hesitate to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course, you must know!”
31 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
32 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the
33 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
34 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
35 tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.
36 tn Heb “small or great.”
37 tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “camp.”
40 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.