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 1:35
Context1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed 3 that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”
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!” 4
1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 5 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:45
Context1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 6 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.
1 Kings 1:47
Context1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 7 our master 8 King David, saying, ‘May your God 9 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 10 Then the king leaned 11 on the bed
1 Kings 2:29-30
Context2:29 When King Solomon heard 12 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 13 “Go, strike him down.” 2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 14
1 Kings 3:20-21
Context3:20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms. 3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, 15 dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 16
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. 17
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 18 so that he might vindicate 19 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 20 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 21 I will be constantly present there. 22
1 Kings 9:19
Context9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, 23 and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. 24 He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 25
1 Kings 10:2
Context10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem 26 with a great display of pomp, 27 bringing with her camels carrying spices, 28 a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.
1 Kings 11:20
Context11:20 Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, 29 named Genubath. Tahpenes raised 30 him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons.
1 Kings 11:27-29
Context11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: 31 Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 32 11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; 33 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 34 of Joseph. 11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah 35 was wearing a brand new robe,
1 Kings 11:34
Context11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.
1 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 36 the supervisor of the work crews, 37 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 38
1 Kings 13:4
Context13:4 When the king heard what the prophet 39 cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand 40 and ordered, 41 “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up 42 and he could not pull it back.
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 43 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 15:27
Context15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab 44 and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.
1 Kings 16:9
Context16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily 45 at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,
1 Kings 16:11
Context16:11 When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. 46
1 Kings 16:16
Context16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: 47 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 48 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
1 Kings 16:21
Context16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.
1 Kings 18:43
Context18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 49 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 50
1 Kings 19:7-8
Context19:7 The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” 51 19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
1 Kings 19:13
Context19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden 52 a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
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 53 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 20:7
Context20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders 54 of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. 55 Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”
1 Kings 20:10
Context20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 56 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 57
1 Kings 20:22-23
Context20:22 The prophet 58 visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. 59 Determine 60 what you must do, for in the spring 61 the king of Syria will attack 62 you.” 20:23 Now the advisers 63 of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.
1 Kings 20:40
Context20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” 64
1 Kings 20:42
Context20:42 The prophet 65 then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” 66
1 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! 67 Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. 68 I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
1 Kings 21:20
Context21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 69 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 70 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 71 to doing evil in the sight of 72 the Lord.
1 Kings 22:13
Context22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 73 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” 74
1 Kings 22:22
Context22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 75 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 76 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
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 “commanded.”
4 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
5 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.
6 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
7 tn Heb “to bless.”
8 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
9 tc Many Hebrew
10 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.
11 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
12 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
13 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
14 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
15 tn Heb “look.”
16 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
17 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.”
18 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
19 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
20 tn Heb “I have heard.”
21 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
22 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
23 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
24 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
25 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
26 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
27 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.
28 tn Or “balsam oil.”
29 tn Heb “bore him Genubath his son.”
30 tc The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ (vattigmÿlehu, “weaned him”) but a slight alteration of the consonantal text yields וַתִּגְדְלֵהוּ (vattigdÿlehu, “raised him”), which seems to make better sense.
31 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
32 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.
33 tn Heb “man of strength.”
34 tn Heb “house.”
35 tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.
36 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.
37 sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.
38 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
39 tn Heb “the man of God.”
40 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
41 tn Heb “saying.”
42 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”
43 tn Heb “the man of God.”
44 tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”
46 tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”
47 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
48 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
49 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the
50 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
51 tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”
52 tn Heb “look.”
53 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
54 tn Heb “elders.”
55 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”
56 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
57 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”
58 tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).
59 tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”
60 tn Heb “know and see.”
61 tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”
62 tn Heb “go up against.”
63 tn Or “servants.”
64 tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”
65 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
66 tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”
67 tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”
68 tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”
69 tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
70 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
71 tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”
72 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
73 tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”
74 tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”
75 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
76 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
