Discovery Box1 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 1:30
Context1:30 I will keep 1 today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”
1 Kings 1:47
Context1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 2 our master 3 King David, saying, ‘May your God 4 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 5 Then the king leaned 6 on the bed
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. 7
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 8 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 9
1 Kings 8:28
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 10 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 11 the desperate prayer 12 your servant is presenting to you 13 today.
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 14 so that he might vindicate 15 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 16 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 17 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 18 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 11:31
Context11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
1 Kings 13:21
Context13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You 19 have rebelled against the Lord 20 and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you.
1 Kings 14:13
Context14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family 21 who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
1 Kings 16:13
Context16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 22
1 Kings 17:1
Context17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 23 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 24
1 Kings 18:25
Context18:25 Elijah told the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire.” 25
1 Kings 19:8
Context19:8 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 21:13
Context21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him 26 outside the city and stoned him to death. 27
1 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
2 tn Heb “to bless.”
3 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
4 tc Many Hebrew
5 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.
6 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
7 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
8 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
9 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
10 tn Heb “turn to.”
11 tn Heb “by listening to.”
12 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
13 tn Heb “praying before you.”
14 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
15 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
16 tn Heb “and they will say.”
17 tn Heb “fathers.”
18 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
19 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.
20 tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the
21 tn Heb “house.”
22 tn Heb “angering the
23 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
24 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
25 tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.
26 tn Heb “led him.”
27 tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”
