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 3:11
Context3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, 1
1 Kings 9:6
Context9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 2 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 3
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.” 4
1 Kings 19:2
Context19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, 5 “May the gods judge me severely 6 if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” 7
1 Kings 20:10
Context20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 8 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 9
1 Kings 21:10
Context21:10 Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
1 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
2 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
3 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
4 tc The last sentence of v. 25 is absent in the Syriac Peshitta.
5 tn Heb “saying.”
6 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
7 tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
8 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
9 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”
