Discovery Box1 Kings 1:11 
Context1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 1 that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 2
1 Kings 1:13
Context1:13 Visit 3 King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise 4 your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’
1 Kings 1:17
Context1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’
1 Kings 1:19
Context1:19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1:30
Context1:30 I will keep 5 today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”
1 Kings 1:37-38
Context1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” 6
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 7 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:47
Context1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 8 our master 9 King David, saying, ‘May your God 10 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 11 Then the king leaned 12 on the bed
1 Kings 1:52
Context1:52 Solomon said, “If he is a loyal subject, 13 not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, 14 he will die.”
1 Kings 2:22
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 15 Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 2:29
Context2:29 When King Solomon heard 16 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 17 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 3:4
Context3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 18 Solomon would offer up 19 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
1 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 20 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 21 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 22 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 23
1 Kings 3:15
Context3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. 24 He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, 25 and held a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 4:25
Context4:25 All the people of Judah and Israel had security; everyone from Dan to Beer Sheba enjoyed the produce of their vines and fig trees throughout Solomon’s lifetime. 26
1 Kings 4:27
Context4:27 The district governors acquired supplies for King Solomon and all who ate in his royal palace. 27 Each was responsible for one month in the year; they made sure nothing was lacking.
1 Kings 5:1
Context5:1 (5:15) 28 King Hiram of Tyre 29 sent messengers 30 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
1 Kings 5:7
Context5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 31 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
1 Kings 5:11
Context5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 32 of wheat as provision for his royal court, 33 as well as 20,000 baths 34 of pure 35 olive oil. 36
1 Kings 5:18--6:1
Context5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, 37 along with men from Byblos, 38 did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. 39
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 40 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 7:51
Context7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he 41 put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 8:5
Context8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 42
1 Kings 8:54
Context8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 43
1 Kings 8:63
Context8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings 44 to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 9:15-16
Context9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews 45 King Solomon conscripted 46 to build the Lord’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, 47 and the cities of 48 Hazor, 49 Megiddo, 50 and Gezer. 9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
1 Kings 9:21
Context9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. 51
1 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 52 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 53
1 Kings 10:2
Context10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem 54 with a great display of pomp, 55 bringing with her camels carrying spices, 56 a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.
1 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 She gave the king 120 talents 57 of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. 58
1 Kings 11:2
Context11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! 59 If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” 60 But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 61
1 Kings 11:11
Context11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, 62 I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
1 Kings 11:27-28
Context11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: 63 Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 64 11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; 65 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 66 of Joseph.
1 Kings 11:31
Context11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 67 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 68 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12:21
Context12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 69 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”
2 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”
3 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
4 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
5 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
6 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
7 sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.
8 tn Heb “to bless.”
9 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
10 tc Many Hebrew
11 tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.
12 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
13 tn Heb “if he is a man of strength [or ability].” In this context, where Adonijah calls himself a “servant,” implying allegiance to the new king, the phrase אִישׁ חַיִל (’ish khayil) probably carries the sense of “a worthy man,” that is, “loyal” (see HALOT 311 s.v. חַיִל).
14 tn Heb “but if evil is found in him.”
15 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
16 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
17 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
18 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
19 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
20 tn Heb “did.”
21 tn Heb “walked before.”
22 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
23 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
24 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
25 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
26 tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”
27 tn Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”
28 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
29 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
30 tn Heb “his servants.”
31 tn Or “Blessed be the
32 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
33 tn Heb “his house.”
34 tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”
sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.
35 tn Or “pressed.”
36 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
37 tn Heb “builders.”
38 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
39 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
40 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
41 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
42 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
43 tn Or “toward heaven.”
44 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
45 sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.
46 tn Heb “raised up.”
47 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
48 tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
49 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
50 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
51 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”
52 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
53 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
54 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
55 tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.
56 tn Or “balsam oil.”
57 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
58 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
59 tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”
60 tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
61 tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.
62 tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”
63 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
64 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
65 tn Heb “man of strength.”
66 tn Heb “house.”
67 tn Heb “stood before.”
68 tn Heb “saying.”
69 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
