Discovery Box1 Kings 1:12 
Context1:12 Now 1 let me give you some advice as to how 2 you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.
1 Kings 1:24
Context1:24 Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?
1 Kings 1:26
Context1:26 But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1:48
Context1:48 and said 3 this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because 4 today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” 5
1 Kings 2:7
Context2:7 “Treat fairly 6 the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, 7 because they helped me 8 when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.
1 Kings 2:17
Context2:17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.” 9
1 Kings 2:23
Context2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 10 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 11
1 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 12 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 13 me what I should give you.”
1 Kings 3:17
Context3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
1 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received 14 the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. 15
1 Kings 8:18
Context8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 16
1 Kings 9:4
Context9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 17
1 Kings 9:13
Context9:13 Hiram asked, 18 “Why did you give me these cities, my friend 19 ?” He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day. 20
1 Kings 11:22
Context11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” 21 Hadad replied, 22 “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 23
1 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 24 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
1 Kings 13:9
Context13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 25 ‘Do not eat or drink 26 there and do not go home the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:13
Context13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
1 Kings 13:17
Context13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 27 ‘Do not eat or drink 28 there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 18:30
Context18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. 29
1 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”
1 Kings 20:35
Context20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” 30 But the man refused to wound him.
1 Kings 21:22
Context21:22 I will make your dynasty 31 like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah because you angered me and made Israel sin.’ 32
1 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 33 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
1 Kings 22:18
Context22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”
1 Kings 22:28
Context22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, 34 all you people.”
1 tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
2 tn Or “so that.”
3 tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”
4 tn Or “Blessed be the
5 tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”
6 tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”
7 tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”
8 tn Heb “drew near to.”
9 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”
10 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
11 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
12 tn Or “revealed himself.”
13 tn Heb “ask.”
14 tn Heb “heard.”
15 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”
16 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
17 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
18 tn Heb “and he said.”
19 tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.
20 tn Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”
21 tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”
22 tn Heb “and he said.”
23 sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the
24 tn Heb “came.”
25 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the
26 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
27 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
28 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
29 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
30 tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the
31 tn Heb “house.”
32 tn Heb “because of the provocation by which you angered [me], and you caused Israel to sin.”
33 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
34 tn Heb “Listen.”
