Discovery Box1 Kings 1:14 
Context1:14 While 1 you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive 2 and verify your report.” 3
1 Kings 1:16
Context1:16 Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before 4 the king. The king said, “What do you want?”
1 Kings 2:14
Context2:14 He added, 5 “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”
1 Kings 2:26
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 6 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 7 but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 8
1 Kings 8:25
Context8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, 9 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ 10
1 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 11 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” 12
1 Kings 17:4
Context17:4 Drink from the stream; I have already told 13 the ravens to bring you food 14 there.”
1 Kings 18:11
Context18:11 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’ 15
1 tn In the Hebrew text the sentence is introduced by the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”), which here draws attention to Nathan’s concluding word of assurance and support. For this use of the word, see HALOT 252 s.v. הִנֵּה.
2 tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will come after you.”
3 tn Heb “fill up [i.e., confirm] your words.”
4 tn Heb “bowed low and bowed down to.”
5 tn Heb “and he said.”
6 tn Or “field.”
7 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
8 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
9 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
10 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
11 tn Or “delighted in.”
12 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
13 tn Heb “commanded.”
14 tn Heb “to provide for you.”
15 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
