Discovery Box1 Kings 1:1 
Context1:1 King David was very old; 1 even when they covered him with blankets, 2 he could not get warm.
1 Kings 1:29
Context1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me 3 from every danger),
1 Kings 1:50
Context1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 4
1 Kings 2:11
Context2:11 David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem 5 thirty-three years.
1 Kings 2:34
Context2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; 6 he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
1 Kings 4:10-11
Context4:10 Ben-Hesed was in charge of Arubboth; he controlled Socoh and all the territory of Hepher.
4:11 Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)
1 Kings 6:22
Context6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 7
1 Kings 6:29
Context6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, 8 he carved 9 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
1 Kings 6:35-36
Context6:35 He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings. 6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:16
Context7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. 10
1 Kings 9:2
Context9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 11
1 Kings 9:12
Context9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 12
1 Kings 10:4
Context10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, 13 the palace 14 he had built,
1 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 15
1 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well 16 he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. 17
1 Kings 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
1 Kings 12:8
Context12:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. 18
1 Kings 13:16
Context13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you 19 or eat and drink 20 with you in this place.
1 Kings 13:30
Context13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they 21 mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”
1 Kings 14:20
Context14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. 22 His son Nadab replaced him as king.
1 Kings 17:6
Context17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
1 Kings 17:11
Context17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” 23
1 Kings 17:22
Context17:22 The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.
1 Kings 18:14
Context18:14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ 24 but he will kill me.”
1 Kings 18:17
Context18:17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he 25 said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster 26 on Israel?”
1 Kings 20:21
Context20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated 27 Syria.
1 Kings 22:33
Context22:33 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.
1 Kings 22:46
Context22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. 28
1 Kings 22:53
Context22:53 He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, 29 angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done. 30
1 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days” (i.e., advancing in years).
2 tn Or “garments.”
3 tn Or “ransomed my life.”
4 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.
5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
6 tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”
8 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
9 tn Heb “carved engravings of carvings.”
10 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
11 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
12 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
13 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
14 tn Heb “house.”
15 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”
16 tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”
17 tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
18 tn Heb “He rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.” The referent (Rehoboam) of the initial pronoun (“he”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”
20 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
21 tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).
22 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
23 tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”
24 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
25 tn Heb “Ahab.”
26 tn Or “trouble.”
27 tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”
28 tn Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
sn Despite Asa’s opposition to these male cultic prostitutes (see 1 Kgs 15:12) some of them had managed to remain in the land. Jehoshaphat finished what his father had started.
29 tn Heb “he served Baal and bowed down to him.”
30 tn Heb “according to all which his father had done.”
