Discovery Box1 Kings 1:20 
Context1:20 Now, 1 my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne. 2
1 Kings 1:39-40
Context1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 3 from the tent and poured it on 4 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!” 1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. 5
1 Kings 4:25
Context4:25 All the people of Judah and Israel had security; everyone from Dan to Beer Sheba enjoyed the produce of their vines and fig trees throughout Solomon’s lifetime. 6
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 7 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 8
1 Kings 7:47
Context7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. 9
1 Kings 8:38
Context8:38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 10 as they acknowledge their pain 11 and spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 Kings 8:58
Context8:58 May he make us submissive, 12 so we can follow all his instructions 13 and obey 14 the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.
1 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 15
1 Kings 11:32
Context11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 16 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
1 Kings 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 17 against the altar in Bethel 18 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 19 will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 15:7
Context15:7 The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 20 Abijah and Jeroboam had been at war with each other.
1 Kings 15:33
Context15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.
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. 21
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 22 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 18:39
Context18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 23 The Lord is the true God!”
1 tc Many Hebrew
2 tn Heb “the eyes of all Israel are upon you to declare to them who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him.”
3 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.
sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.
4 tn Or “anointed.”
5 tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
6 tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”
7 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
8 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
9 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
10 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
11 tn Heb “which they know, each the pain of his heart.”
12 tn Heb “to bend our hearts toward him.” The infinitive is subordinate to the initial prayer, “may the
13 tn Heb “to walk in all his ways.”
14 tn Heb “keep.”
15 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
16 tn Heb “came.”
17 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
18 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
19 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
20 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Abijah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
21 tn Heb “angering the
22 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).
