Discovery Box1 Kings 1:13 
Context1:13 Visit 1 King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise 2 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 1:30
Context1:30 I will keep 3 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 3:18
Context3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 4
1 Kings 6:1
Context6:1 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 5 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 6 It was there that 7 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:53
Context8:53 After all, 8 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 9 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 10 the supervisor of the work crews, 11 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 12
1 Kings 13:31
Context13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 13 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 13:33
Context13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 14 he continued to appoint common people 15 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 16
1 Kings 16:24
Context16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria 17 from Shemer for two talents 18 of silver. He launched a construction project there 19 and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.
1 Kings 19:20
Context19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah 20 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
2 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
3 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
4 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
5 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
6 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
7 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
8 tn Or “For.”
9 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
10 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.
11 sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
13 tn Heb “the man of God.”
14 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
15 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
16 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”
17 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
18 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 150 pounds of silver.
19 tn Heb “he built up the hill.”
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
