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 2:30
Context2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 1
1 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 2 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 3 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 4 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 5
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. 6
1 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 Elijah 7 replied, “I have not brought disaster 8 on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.
1 Kings 20:32
Context20:32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, “Your servant 9 Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab 10 replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 11
1 Kings 21:20
Context21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 12 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 13 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 14 to doing evil in the sight of 15 the Lord.
1 Kings 22:4
Context22:4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 16
1 Kings 22:22
Context22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 17 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 18 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
1 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
2 tn Heb “did.”
3 tn Heb “walked before.”
4 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
5 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
6 tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Or “trouble.”
9 sn Your servant. By referring to Ben Hadad as Ahab’s servant, they are suggesting that Ahab make him a subject in a vassal treaty arrangement.
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 sn He is my brother. Ahab’s response indicates that he wants to make a parity treaty and treat Ben Hadad as an equal partner.
12 tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”
15 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
16 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
18 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
