Discovery Box1 Kings 1:19 
Context1:19 He has sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the commander of the army, but he has not invited your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1:37
Context1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” 1
1 Kings 1:51
Context1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; 2 see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise 3 me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
1 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 But now 4 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 5 make sure he has a bloody death.” 6
1 Kings 2:24
Context2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 7 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 2:28
Context2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported 8 Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he 9 ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 10
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. 11
1 Kings 4:24
Context4:24 His royal court was so large because 12 he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah 13 to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. 14
1 Kings 4:33
Context4:33 He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, 15 from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing 16 animals, birds, insects, and fish.
1 Kings 5:1
Context5:1 (5:15) 17 King Hiram of Tyre 18 sent messengers 19 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
1 Kings 6:16
Context6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. 20 He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. 21
1 Kings 7:39
Context7:39 He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.
1 Kings 8:54
Context8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 22
1 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
1 Kings 9:19
Context9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, 23 and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. 24 He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 25
1 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 26 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 27
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 28 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 29 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12:15
Context12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events 30 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 31 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
1 Kings 13:4
Context13:4 When the king heard what the prophet 32 cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand 33 and ordered, 34 “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up 35 and he could not pull it back.
1 Kings 13:31
Context13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 36 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 13:33
Context13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 37 he continued to appoint common people 38 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 39
1 Kings 14:13
Context14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family 40 who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
1 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 He did this 41 because David had done what he approved 42 and had not disregarded any of his commandments 43 his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 16:18-19
Context16:18 When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames. 44 16:19 This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of 45 the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning. 46
1 Kings 16:31
Context16:31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 47
1 Kings 18:43
Context18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 48 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 49
1 Kings 19:6
Context19:6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 50
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 19:19
Context19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
1 Kings 20:12
Context20:12 When Ben Hadad received this reply, 51 he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. 52 He ordered his servants, “Get ready to attack!” So they got ready to attack the city.
1 Kings 20:14
Context20:14 Ahab asked, “By whom will this be accomplished?” 53 He answered, “This is what the Lord says, ‘By the servants of the district governors.’” Ahab 54 asked, “Who will launch the attack?” He answered, “You will.”
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 55 Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab 56 replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 57
1 Kings 21:18
Context21:18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.
1 Kings 22:15
Context22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” 58
1 Kings 22:42
Context22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. 59 His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings 22:52
Context22:52 He did evil in the sight of 60 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 61 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 62
1 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
2 tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
4 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
5 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
6 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
7 tn Heb “house.”
8 tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).
9 tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
10 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.
11 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
12 tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.
13 sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.
14 tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”
15 tn Heb “he spoke about plants.”
16 tn Heb “he spoke about.”
17 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
18 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
19 tn Heb “his servants.”
20 tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”
21 tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.
22 tn Or “toward heaven.”
23 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
24 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
25 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
26 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
27 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
28 tn Heb “stood before.”
29 tn Heb “saying.”
30 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the
31 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the
32 tn Heb “the man of God.”
33 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
34 tn Heb “saying.”
35 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”
36 tn Heb “the man of God.”
37 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
38 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
39 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”
40 tn Heb “house.”
41 tn The words “he did this” are added for stylistic reasons.
42 tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the
43 tn Heb “and had not turned aside from all which he commanded him.”
44 tn Heb “and he burned the house of the king over him with fire and he died.”
45 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
46 tn Heb “walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin.”
47 tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”
sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.
48 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the
49 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
50 tn Heb “and again lay down”
51 tn Heb “When he heard this word.”
52 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
53 tn The words “will this be accomplished” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
54 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
55 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.
56 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
57 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.
58 sn “Attack! You will succeed; the
59 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
60 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
61 tn Or “way.”
62 tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”
