Discovery Box1 Kings 1:21 
Context1:21 If a decision is not made, 1 when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 2 my son Solomon and I 3 will be considered state criminals.” 4
1 Kings 2:27
Context2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, 5 fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. 6
1 Kings 5:12
Context5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. 7
1 Kings 6:31
Context6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. 8
1 Kings 6:33
Context6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. 9
1 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:18
Context7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. 10
1 Kings 7:27
Context7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet 11 long, six feet 12 wide, and four-and-a-half feet 13 high.
1 Kings 7:37-38
Context7:37 He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.
7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. 14 Each basin was six feet in diameter; 15 there was one basin for each stand.
1 Kings 7:40-41
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 16 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 17 7:41 He made 18 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,
1 Kings 7:45
Context7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple 19 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 7:48
Context7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, 20
1 Kings 10:27
Context10:27 The king made silver as plentiful 21 in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was 22 as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. 23
1 Kings 14:7
Context14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up 24 from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
1 Kings 14:16
Context14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies 25 because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 26 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 27
1 Kings 14:26-27
Context14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made. 14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard 28 who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
1 Kings 15:12
Context15:12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols 29 his ancestors 30 had made.
1 Kings 15:15
Context15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 31
1 Kings 15:30
Context15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel. 32
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 33 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 18:32
Context18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 34 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 35 of seed.
1 Kings 21:22
Context21:22 I will make your dynasty 36 like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah because you angered me and made Israel sin.’ 37
1 Kings 22:11
Context22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”
1 Kings 22:48
Context22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 38 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
1 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
2 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
3 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
5 tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the
6 tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the
7 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
8 tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).
9 tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”
10 tn Heb “he made the pillars, and two rows surrounding one latticework to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and so he did for the second latticework.” The translation supplies “pomegranates” after “two rows,” and understands “pillars,” rather than “pomegranates,” to be the correct reading after “on top of.” The latter change finds support from many Hebrew
11 tn Heb “four cubits.”
12 tn Heb “four cubits.”
13 tn Heb “three cubits.”
14 tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).
15 tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.
16 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
18 tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.
19 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
20 tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.
sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.
21 tn The words “as plentiful” are added for clarification.
22 tn Heb “he made.”
23 tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”
24 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 7-11 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 7-9) and the main clause announcing the punishment (vv. 10-11). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.
25 tn Heb “and he will give [up] Israel.”
26 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
27 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
28 tn Heb “runners.”
29 tn The word used here, גִלּוּלִים [gillulim], is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), “vanities” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).
30 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
31 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the
32 tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the
33 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
34 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the
35 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
36 tn Heb “house.”
37 tn Heb “because of the provocation by which you angered [me], and you caused Israel to sin.”
38 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
