2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported 4 Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he 5 ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 6
8:1 11 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 12 Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). 13
8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 15 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 16 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 17
21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 42 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 43 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 44 to doing evil in the sight of 45 the Lord.
1 tn Or “kingship.”
2 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
3 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
4 tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).
5 tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.
7 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
8 tn Heb “The
9 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
10 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
11 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”
12 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
13 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
14 tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by declaring the guilty to be guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”
15 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
16 tn Or perhaps “to you, O
17 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
18 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
19 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
20 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
21 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
22 tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
23 tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”
24 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
25 tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”
26 tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”
27 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the
28 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the
29 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
30 tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”
31 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.’”
32 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
33 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
34 sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the
35 tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”
sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.
36 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”
37 tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.
38 tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”
39 tn Or “slaughtered.”
40 tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.
41 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
43 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
44 tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”
45 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
46 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
47 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the
48 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
50 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the