1 Kings 8:36
8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 1 you will then teach them the right way to live 2 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 3
1 Kings 18:1
Elijah Meets the King’s Servant
18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 4 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 18:19
18:19 Now send out messengers 5 and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. 6
1 Kings 20:6
20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” 7
1 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
2 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
3 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
4 tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”
5 tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.
6 tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”
7 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”