1 Kings 2:26

2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property¹ 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 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate.⁴ There I will separate the logs⁵ and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.”⁶

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.⁷ If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.⁸ That would not be fair,⁹ because your servant has been a loyal follower of¹⁰ the Lord from my youth.

¹tn Or “field.”

²tn Heb “you are a man of death.”

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

⁴tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

⁵tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

⁶tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”

⁷tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

⁸tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

⁹tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

¹⁰tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).