1 Kings 8:66
8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 1 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 2 and then went to their homes, happy and content 3 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 19:4
19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 4 and asked the Lord to take his life: 5 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 6
1 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
2 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
3 tn Heb “good of heart.”
4 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
5 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
6 tn Heb “fathers.”