1 Kings 2:4-5

2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me,¹ ‘If your descendants watch their step² and live faithfully in my presence³ with all their heart and being,⁴ then,’ he promised,⁵ ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’⁶

2:5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me – how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether.⁷ During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle;⁸ when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet.⁹

1 Kings 2:42

2:42 the king summoned¹⁰ Shimei and said to him, “You will recall¹¹ that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere,¹² know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’¹³

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.¹⁴ If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.¹⁵ That would not be fair,¹⁶ because your servant has been a loyal follower of¹⁷ the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat¹⁸ of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner.¹⁹ He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason,²⁰ you will pay with your life or with a talent²¹ of silver.’²²

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer,²³ I will pay you silver for it.”²⁴

1 Kings 21:6

21:6 He answered her, “While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, ‘Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not sell you my vineyard.’”²⁵

¹tn Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”

²tn Heb “guard their way.”

³tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”

⁴tn Or “soul.”

⁵tn Heb “saying.”

⁶tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”

⁷tn Heb “what he did to the two commanders…and he killed them.”

⁸tn Heb “he shed the blood of battle in peace.”

⁹tn Heb “and he shed the blood of battle when he killed which is on his waist and on his sandal[s] which are on his feet.” That is, he covered himself with guilt and his guilt was obvious to all who saw him.

¹⁰tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

¹¹tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”

¹²tn Heb “here or there.”

¹³tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”

¹⁴tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

¹⁶tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

¹⁷tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

¹⁸tn Heb “middle.”

¹⁹tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

²⁰tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

²¹tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.

²²tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

²³tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

²⁴tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”

²⁵tn Heb “While I was talking…, I said…, he said….” Ahab’s explanation is one lengthy sentence in the Hebrew text, which is divided in the English translation for stylistic reasons.