Discovery Box1 Kings 1:24 
Context1:24 Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?
1 Kings 1:31
Context1:31 Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor 1 and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”
1 Kings 1:42
Context1:42 As he was still speaking, Jonathan 2 son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in, for 3 an important man like you must be bringing good news.” 4
1 Kings 1:48
Context1:48 and said 5 this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because 6 today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” 7
1 Kings 2:17
Context2:17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.” 8
1 Kings 2:44
Context2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 9 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 10
1 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 11 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 12 me what I should give you.”
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, 13
1 Kings 3:17
Context3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
1 Kings 3:23
Context3:23 The king said, “One says, ‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says, ‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”
1 Kings 8:15
Context8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 14 what he promised 15 my father David.
1 Kings 10:6
Context10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight 16 was true!
1 Kings 11:22
Context11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” 17 Hadad replied, 18 “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 19
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 20
1 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 21 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 22
1 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 23 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
1 Kings 17:23-24
Context17:23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!” 17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” 24
1 Kings 18:7
Context18:7 As Obadiah was traveling along, Elijah met him. 25 When he recognized him, he fell facedown to the ground and said, “Is it really you, my master, Elijah?”
1 Kings 18:15
Context18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 26 lives (whom I serve), 27 I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Elijah said to them: 28 “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:31
Context18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new 29 name.” 30
1 Kings 19:5
Context19:5 He stretched out 31 and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger 32 touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
1 Kings 19:15
Context19:15 The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.
1 Kings 20:3
Context20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”
1 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”
1 Kings 21:5
Context21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”
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 22:16
Context22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 33 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
1 Kings 22:18
Context22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”
1 Kings 22:21
Context22:21 Then a spirit 34 stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’
1 Kings 22:26
Context22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.
1 Kings 22:28
Context22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, 35 all you people.”
1 Kings 22:32
Context22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22:38
Context22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); 36 dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. 37
1 tn Heb “bowed low, face [to] the ground, and bowed down to the king.”
2 tn The Hebrew text has “look” at this point. The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh), “look draws attention to Jonathan’s arrival and invites the audience to view the scene through the eyes of the participants.
3 tn Or “surely.”
4 tn Heb “you are a man of strength [or “ability”] and you bring a message [that is] good.” Another option is to understand the phrase אִישׁ חַיִל (’ish khayil) in the sense of “a worthy man,” that is “loyal.” See also 1 Kgs 1:52 and HALOT 311 s.v. חַיִל.
5 tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”
6 tn Or “Blessed be the
7 tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”
8 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”
9 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
10 tn Heb “The
11 tn Or “revealed himself.”
12 tn Heb “ask.”
13 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.”
14 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”
15 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”
16 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
17 tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”
18 tn Heb “and he said.”
19 sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the
20 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
21 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.
22 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
23 tn Heb “came.”
24 tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the
sn This episode is especially significant in light of Ahab’s decision to promote Baal worship in Israel. In Canaanite mythology the drought that swept over the region (v. 1) would signal that Baal, a fertility god responsible for providing food for his subjects, had been defeated by the god of death and was imprisoned in the underworld. While Baal was overcome by death and unable to function like a king, Israel’s God demonstrated his sovereignty and superiority to death by providing food for a widow and restoring life to her son. And he did it all in Sidonian territory, Baal’s back yard, as it were. The episode demonstrates that Israel’s God, not Baal, is the true king who provides food and controls life and death. This polemic against Baalism reaches its climax in the next chapter, when the
25 tn Heb “look, Elijah [came] to meet him.”
26 tn Traditionally, “the
27 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
28 tn Heb “to the people.”
29 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.
30 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.
31 tn Or “lay down.”
32 tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”
33 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
34 tn Heb “the spirit.” The significance of the article prefixed to רוּחַ (ruakh) is uncertain, but it could contain a clue as to this spirit’s identity, especially when interpreted in light of v. 24. It is certainly possible, and probably even likely, that the article is used in a generic or dramatic sense and should be translated, “a spirit.” In the latter case it would show that this spirit was vivid and definite in the mind of Micaiah the storyteller. However, if one insists that the article indicates a well-known or universally known spirit, the following context provides a likely referent. Verse 24 tells how Zedekiah slapped Micaiah in the face and then asked sarcastically, “Which way did the spirit from the
35 tn Heb “Listen.”
36 tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”
37 tn Heb “according to the word of the
