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 2:45
Context2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered 4 and David’s dynasty 5 will endure permanently before the Lord.”
1 Kings 3:25
Context3:25 The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”
1 Kings 3:27
Context3:27 The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”
1 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 6 long, 30 feet 7 wide, and 45 feet 8 high.
1 Kings 7:46
Context7:46 The king had them cast in earth foundries 9 in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 8:2
Context8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival 10 in the month Ethanim 11 (the seventh month).
1 Kings 8:14
Context8:14 Then the king turned around 12 and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. 13
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 They sailed 14 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 15 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:16
Context10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures 16 of gold were used for each shield.
1 Kings 10:28
Context10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt 17 and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.
1 Kings 11:37
Context11:37 I will select 18 you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.
1 Kings 14:20
Context14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. 19 His son Nadab replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:1
Context15:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah 20 became king over Judah.
1 Kings 15:8-9
Context15:8 Abijah passed away 21 and was buried 22 in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.
15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:28
Context15:28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:22
Context16:22 Omri’s supporters were stronger than those who supported Tibni son of Ginath. Tibni died; Omri became king.
1 Kings 20:21
Context20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated 23 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 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days” (i.e., advancing in years).
2 tn Or “garments.”
3 tn Or “ransomed my life.”
4 tn Or “blessed.”
5 tn Heb “throne.”
6 tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
8 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
9 tn Or perhaps, “molds.”
10 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
11 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.
12 tn Heb “turned his face.”
13 tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”
14 tn Heb “went.”
15 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
16 tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.
17 sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.
18 tn Heb “take.”
19 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
20 tc The Old Greek also has the phrase “the son of Rehoboam.”
21 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”
22 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
23 tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”
