THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on 1 Kings

1:1a age: Lit. 'days.'
1:9b sacrificed: Or 'slew;' and so vers. 19, 25; Deut. 12:15.
1:14a confirm: Lit. 'fill up.'
1:18b now: Some read 'thou' for 'now.'
1:21c sleep: 'Elsewhere 'lie.'
1:27d servants: Or 'servant.'
1:38a Pelethites: See 2Sam. 8:18.
1:39b tabernacle: Elsewhere 'tent.'
1:42c valiant: Or 'worthy,' as ver. 52.
1:52a worthy: Elsewhere 'valiant.'
2:3b prosper: Or 'act with intelligence.'
2:4c thee: Lit. 'there shall not be cut off to thee:' so chs. 8:25; 9:5; 2Chron. 6:16; 7:18.
2:6d Sheol: See Note, Gen. 37:35.
2:16a not: Lit. 'turn not away my face;' and so vers. 17, 20.
2:26b death: Lit. 'a man of death.'
2:26c Adonai: That is, 'the Lord:' see Note e, Gen. 15:2.
2:32d shed: Lit. 'requite his blood.'
3:9a heart: Strictly, 'a heart that hears;' and so ver. 11, 'to hear judgment.'
3:10b Lord: Adonai, but some authorities have Jehovah.
3:15c Jehovah: Some read 'the Lord.'
3:15d offered: 'Did:' as Deut. 12:27, &c.
3:28a justice: Mishpat, same word as for 'judgment,' in this verse and elsewhere.
4:2b priest: Lit. 'the priest.' In ver. 4 there is no article: 'priests.'
4:5c, 4:7c superintendents: or 'chief officers.'
4:6d household: Here 'the palace.'
4:8e Ben-Hur: Or (Ben) 'the son of;' and so throughout the section.
4:10f Arubboth: Or 'in the plains.'
4:22a provision: Lit. 'bread.'
4:22b, 5:11b measures: Heb. Cor, equal to ten ephahs. See 2Chron. 27:5.
4:27c those: See ver. 7.
5:5d unto: Or 'for.'
5:8a cypress: Or 'fir;' and so always.
5:11b measures: Heb. Cor: see ch. 4:22.
6:4c closed: * Or 'splayed' -- narrow without, broad within.
6:5d floors: 'Floors' or 'flats' in three stories.
6:6e in: Lit. 'so as not to impair, or encroach upon, the walls.'
6:7f thither: Or 'built of stones whole from the quarry.'
6:9a covered: Or 'ceiled,' see Jer. 22:14.
6:10b they: i.e. the whole system of side chambers.
6:12c ordinances: Lit. 'judgments.'
6:15d built: That is, 'covered:' so ver. 16.
6:15e walls: Not 'beams,' as LXX and others.
6:16f walls: Or 'from the floor to the top of the walls.'
6:16g place: Lit. 'holy of holies:' so elsewhere.
6:18h colocynths: A kind of gourd.
6:20i within: Or 'the oracle before it i.e. the ark.'
6:20k altar: Or 'and overlaid the altar with cedar-wood.'
6:23l olive-wood: Or 'wood of the oleaster (wild olive).'
6:29a palm-trees: Or 'palms:' and so always.
6:31b doors: 'Folding-doors.'
7:5c architrave: Some say 'made of cross-beams.'
7:6d steps: Or 'a threshold;' or perhaps 'a pediment.'
7:14a Naphtali: See 2Chron. 2:14.
7:14b brass: Or 'copper,' or 'bronze,' as elsewhere.
7:14c wisdom: Or 'skill.'
7:20d behind: Lit. 'beyond;' and so ver. 30.
7:21e for: Or 'near,' or 'at.'
7:21f Jachin: Meaning, 'He will establish.'
7:21g Boaz: Meaning, 'in Him is strength.'
7:23h brim: Lit. 'from lip to lip.'
7:26i baths: The 'bath' equalled the 'ephah' in capacity, Ex. 16:36; 2Chron. 27:5.
7:39a side: Lit. 'shoulder.'
7:40b lavers: Some read 'cauldrons' or 'pots,' cf. ver. 45.
7:40c bowls: 'Bowls' or 'basons' to receive the blood for sprinkling; as Ex. 27:3; Num. 7:13; and so vers. 45, 50.
7:41d globes: Or 'cups,' i.e. crowning pieces in the form of a cup.
7:45e things, 7:48e vessels: Elsewhere 'utensils.'
7:46f plain: See Gen. 13:10.
7:50g knives: Or 'snuffers.'
7:50h censers: Or 'fire-pans.'
8:2a Ethanim: * Otherwise Tisri -- the feast is the feast of tabernacles.
8:8b long: Others, 'and they drew out the staves.'
8:9c with: Or '... at Horeb, the covenant which Jehovah made with;' and so 2Chron. 5:10: see ver. 21.
8:13d place: As ver. 39 and Ex. 15:17.
8:43a dwelling-place: 'Settled place', as in vers. 39 and 49.
8:43b name: Lit. 'that thy name is called over this house which I have built.'
8:46c to: Lit. 'before.'
8:46d captives: Lit. 'and those that take them captive have carried them away.'
8:59a require: Lit. 'the matter of a day in its day.'
9:4a thee: See Gen. 17:4, 9; 2Chron. 7:17.
9:7b land: Lit. 'from the face of the ground.'
9:13c Cabul: i.e. 'pledged,' or according to others, 'of no value.'
9:18d Tadmor: Palmyra.
9:21a tribute: Or 'levy.'
10:6b affairs: Lit. 'of thy things.'
10:17a minas: The gold mina, a coin containing 50 shekels, is estimated at 26 1/3 oz. troy. See Note, Ezek. 45:12.
10:18b refined: Or 'superfine:' it seems to have been the best kind of refined gold.
10:22c ivory: Or 'elephants' teeth.'
10:25d year: Lit. 'each year the business of the year.'
10:27e sycamores: Wild figs.
10:27f lowland: The Shephelah: see Deut. 1:7.
10:28g of: Or 'out of Coa;' so 2Chron. 1:16.
11:11a thee: Lit. 'Because this is with thee.'
11:14b adversary: Heb. 'a satan,' also vers. 23, 25.
11:26a Ephrathite: Or 'Ephraimite.'
11:27b breach: * Probably the ravine between Zion and Ophel -- to complete the fortifications of Jerusalem.
11:28c charge: Or 'work.'
12:11a scorpions: A kind of whip furnished with knotted points.
12:19a against: Or 'fell away from:' so 2Chron. 10:19; 21:8, 10
12:31b classes: See Gen. 19:4. Lit. 'the ends.'
12:32c Judah: * i.e. feast of tabernacles.
13:2a sacrifice: Or 'slay,' same as Deut. 12:15.
13:21a word: Lit. 'mouth;' and so ver. 26 (first time).
13:33b classes: Lit. 'the ends,' as in ch. 12:31.
14:10a left: See Deut. 32:36.
14:10b away: Lit. 'will sweep out after;' and so chs. 16:3; 21:21. Or 'sweepeth out.'
14:23a columns: Or 'statues,' see Lev. 26:1; Deut 7:5.
15:2b Abishalom: i.e. Absalom: see 2Sam. 3:3.
15:10a mother's: i.e. 'grandmother's:' see ver. 2.
15:13b queen: Strictly, 'mistress.' It was a position similar to that of an empress-mother in China: see ch 2:19; for Asherah, see Ex. 34:13; Judg. 2:13.
15:18c Ben-Hadad: Meaning, 'son of Hadad,' i.e. of the sun-god of the Syrians.
15:24d Jehoshaphat: Meaning, 'Jehovah judges.' See Joel 3:2, 12, 14.
16:3a away: See ch. 14:10.
16:11b kinsmen: See Note, Lev. 25:25 and Num. 5:8.
16:33a Asherah: Image of the Phoenician Astarte; see Judg. 2:13.
16:34a in: See Josh. 6:26.
17:1b Elijah: Meaning, 'Whose God (El) is Jehovah.'
17:7c while: Lit. 'at the end of days.'
17:15d year: Lit. 'days.'
18:23a sacrifice: 'Do;' so vers. 25, 26, as Deut. 12:27.
18:26b about: Or 'upon.'
18:32c measures: Heb. seah, corresponding nearly to a peck.
18:43a servant: Heb. 'young man:' see ch. 20:14; Judg. 7:10; Ruth 2:5; 1Sam. 9:5.
19:9a cave: Lit. 'the cave.'
19:16b Elisha: Meaning, 'Whose salvation is God.'
19:21c killed: Or 'sacrificed,' as ch. 1:9, &c.
20:11a off: Or 'Let not him that girdeth himself boast as he who looseth his girdle.'
20:12b tents: Strictly, 'booths;' so ver. 16.
20:14c servants: Or 'young men,' and in vers. 15, 17, 19.
20:23a, 20:25a plateau: The elevated plain east of Jordan.
20:30b chamber: Or 'to an inner chamber:' see ch. 22:25.
20:33c omen: See Gen. 30:27; 44:5, 15.
20:35d another: Or 'his companion.'
20:36a slay: Heb. 'smite.'
20:36e slew: Heb. 'smote.'
20:39b pay: Heb. 'weigh'
21:9c, 21:10c set: Or 'make ... sit.'
21:26a idols: See Lev. 26:30; Deut. 29:17; Ezek. 6:4.
22:5a day: Or 'first.
22:8b Micah: See Judg. 17:4.
22:9c chamberlain: Or 'a eunuch.'
22:25a chamber: See ch. 20:30
22:34b wounded: Or 'have sickened:' see 2Kings 8:29.
22:38c bathed: Some read, 'and the dogs licked his blood, and they washed his weapons.'
22:46a away: Or 'exterminated.'
22:50b Jehoram: Same name as Joram, 2Sam. 8:10.

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