1 Kings 18:26
18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, 1 and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped 2 around on the altar they had made. 3
1 Kings 22:8
22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 4 But I despise 5 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 6 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
1 tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”
2 tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).
3 tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.
4 tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”
5 tn Or “hate.”
6 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.