1 Kings 13:8

13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, ¹  I could not go with you and eat and drink ²  in this place.

1 Kings 13:22

13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” ³  Therefore ⁴  your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” ⁵ 

1 Kings 18:42

18:42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.

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.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 21:4

21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ⁷  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ⁸  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ⁹  and would not eat.

1 Kings 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ¹⁰  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ¹¹  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

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¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

³ 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.’”

⁴ tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.

⁵ tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”

⁷ tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”

⁸ tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”

⁹ tn Heb “turned away his face.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

¹¹ tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”