1 Kings 2:8

2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim,¹ who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim.² He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised³ him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down⁴ with the sword.’

1 Kings 8:66

8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started,⁵ he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king⁶ and then went to their homes, happy and content⁷ because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

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 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen)¹⁰ Jeroboam¹¹ offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel.¹² He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 19:11

19:11 The Lord¹³ 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,¹⁴ but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

1 Kings 19:21

19:21 Elisha¹⁵ went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke.¹⁶ He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.

1 Kings 20:9

20:9 So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Say this to my master, the king, ‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’”¹⁷ So the messengers went back and gave their report.

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

¹tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”

²tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”

³tn Or “swore an oath to.”

⁴tn Heb “kill you.”

⁵tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).

⁶tn Heb “they blessed the king.”

⁷tn Heb “good of heart.”

⁸tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”

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

¹⁰tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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¹³tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).

¹⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”

¹⁷tn Heb “all which you sent to your servant in the beginning I will do, but this thing I am unable to do.”

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.”