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 1:40
Context1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. 3
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 9:2
Context9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 4
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. 5
1 Kings 10:24
Context10:24 Everyone 6 in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 7
1 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well 8 he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. 9
1 Kings 12:3
Context12:3 They sent for him, 10 and Jeroboam and the whole Israelite assembly came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
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. 11
1 Kings 13:23
Context13:23 When the prophet from Judah finished his meal, 12 the old prophet saddled his visitor’s donkey for him. 13
1 Kings 13:30
Context13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they 14 mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”
1 Kings 14:20
Context14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. 15 His son Nadab replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:8
Context15:8 Abijah passed away 16 and was buried 17 in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:30
Context16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of 18 the Lord than all who were before him.
1 Kings 17:5-6
Context17:5 So he did 19 as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. 17:6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
1 Kings 17:22
Context17:22 The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.
1 Kings 18:17
Context18:17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he 20 said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster 21 on Israel?”
1 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” 22
1 Kings 22:7
Context22:7 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”
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 Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
4 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
5 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
6 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.
7 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
8 tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”
9 tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
10 tn Heb “They sent and called for him.”
11 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.
12 tn Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”
13 tn Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”
14 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).
15 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
16 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”
17 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
18 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
19 tn Heb “So he went and did.”
20 tn Heb “Ahab.”
21 tn Or “trouble.”
22 tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”
