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 3:7
Context3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 3
1 Kings 8:23
Context8:23 He prayed: 4 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 5 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 6
1 Kings 8:28
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 7 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 8 the desperate prayer 9 your servant is presenting to you 10 today.
1 Kings 8:53
Context8:53 After all, 11 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 12 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
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 “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
4 tn Heb “said.”
5 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
6 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
7 tn Heb “turn to.”
8 tn Heb “by listening to.”
9 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
10 tn Heb “praying before you.”
11 tn Or “For.”
12 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
