1 Kings 8:48
8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being 1 in the land where they are held prisoner, 2 and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 3
1 Kings 14:15
14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 4 He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 5 and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 6 because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 7
1 Kings 19:21
19:21 Elisha 8 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. 9 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.’” 10 So the messengers went back and gave their report.
1 tn Or “soul.”
2 tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”
3 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
4 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”
5 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).
6 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”
sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”
10 tn Heb “all which you sent to your servant in the beginning I will do, but this thing I am unable to do.”