12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 6 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab 7 and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.
1 tn Heb “heard.”
2 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.
5 tn Or “balsam oil.”
6 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
7 tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”
9 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
10 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
11 tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.
12 tn Heb “the God.”