1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property ¹  in Anathoth. You deserve to die, ²  but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” ³ 

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned ⁴  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ⁵  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ⁶  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁷ 

1 Kings 12:24

12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ⁸  They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. ⁹ 

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ¹⁰  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ¹¹  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ¹²  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ¹³  That would not be fair, ¹⁴  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ¹⁵  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 19:11

19:11 The Lord ¹⁶  said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”

A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, ¹⁷  but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

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¹ tn Or “field.”

² tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

⁴ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

⁵ tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

⁶ tn Heb “here or there.”

⁷ tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

⁸ tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

⁹ tn Heb “and they heard the word of the Lord and returned to go according to the word of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹¹ tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

¹² tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

¹³ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

¹⁴ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

¹⁵ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).