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 1:51
Context1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; 3 see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise 4 me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
1 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 But now 5 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 6 make sure he has a bloody death.” 7
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 8 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
1 Kings 8:56
Context8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure 9 just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! 10
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 11 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 12 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 13 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 She gave the king 120 talents 14 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. 15
1 Kings 10:12
Context10:12 With the timber the king made supports 16 for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments 17 for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. 18 )
1 Kings 13:3
Context13:3 That day he also announced 19 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 20 The altar will be split open and the ashes 21 on it will fall to the ground.” 22
1 Kings 14:11
Context14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family 23 who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
1 Kings 16:16
Context16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: 24 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 25 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
1 Kings 21:18
Context21:18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.
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 Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
5 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
6 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
7 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
8 tn Or “Blessed be the
9 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
10 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
11 tn Heb “and they will say.”
12 tn Heb “fathers.”
13 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
14 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.”
15 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
16 tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”
17 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
18 tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”
19 tn Heb “gave.”
20 tn Heb “spoken.”
21 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
22 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
23 tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.
24 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
25 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
