Discovery Box1 Kings 1:2 
Context1:2 His servants advised 1 him, “A young virgin must be found for our master, the king, 2 to take care of the king’s needs 3 and serve as his nurse. She can also sleep with you 4 and keep our master, the king, warm.” 5
1 Kings 5:9
Context5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 6 There I will separate the logs 7 and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 8
1 Kings 13:18
Context13:18 The old prophet then said, 9 “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 10 ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 11 But he was lying to him. 12
1 Kings 18:12
Context18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. 13 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 14 That would not be fair, 15 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 16 the Lord from my youth.
1 Kings 21:2
Context21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, 17 I will pay you silver for it.” 18
1 Kings 22:8
Context22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 19 But I despise 20 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 21 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
1 tn Heb “said to.”
2 tn Heb “let them seek for my master, the king, a young girl, a virgin.” The third person plural subject of the verb is indefinite (see GKC 460 §144.f). The appositional expression, “a young girl, a virgin,” is idiomatic; the second term specifically defines the more general first term (see IBHS 230 §12.3b).
3 tn Heb “and she will stand before the king.” The Hebrew phrase “stand before” can mean “to attend; to serve” (BDB 764 s.v. עָמַד).
4 tn Heb “and she will lie down in your bosom.” The expression might imply sexual intimacy (see 2 Sam 12:3 [where the lamb symbolizes Bathsheba] and Mic 7:5), though v. 4b indicates that David did not actually have sex with the young woman.
5 tn Heb “and my master, the king, will be warm.”
6 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
7 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
8 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”
9 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
10 tn Heb “by the word of the
11 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
12 tn Or “deceiving him.”
sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.
13 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
14 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
15 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
16 tn Heb “has feared the
17 tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”
18 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”
19 tn Heb “to seek the
20 tn Or “hate.”
21 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.
