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 3:9
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 3 so he can make judicial decisions for 4 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 5 Otherwise 6 no one is able 7 to make judicial decisions for 8 this great nation of yours.” 9
1 Kings 3:22
Context3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. 10
1 Kings 8:28
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 11 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 12 the desperate prayer 13 your servant is presenting to you 14 today.
1 Kings 8:33
Context8:33 “The time will come when 15 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 16 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 17 and pray for your help 18 in this temple,
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 19 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 20 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 21
1 Kings 8:44
Context8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 22 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 23 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 24
1 Kings 8:47
Context8:47 When your people 25 come to their senses 26 in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; 27 we have done evil.’
1 Kings 8:53
Context8:53 After all, 28 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 29 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 30 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; 31 I will be constantly present there. 32
1 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 33 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 34
1 Kings 11:12
Context11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.
1 Kings 13:22
Context13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 35 Therefore 36 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 37
1 Kings 20:42
Context20:42 The prophet 38 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.’” 39
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 “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
4 tn Heb “to judge.”
5 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
6 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
7 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
8 tn Heb “to judge.”
9 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
10 tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”
11 tn Heb “turn to.”
12 tn Heb “by listening to.”
13 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
14 tn Heb “praying before you.”
15 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
17 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
18 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
19 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
20 tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
22 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
23 tn Or perhaps “to you, O
24 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
25 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
27 tn Or “done wrong.”
28 tn Or “For.”
29 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
30 tn Heb “I have heard.”
31 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
32 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
33 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
34 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
35 tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”
36 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
37 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 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.”
