Discovery Box1 Kings 1:25 
Context1:25 For today he has gone down and sacrificed many cattle, steers, and sheep and has invited all the king’s sons, the army commanders, and Abiathar the priest. At this moment 1 they are having a feast 2 in his presence, and they have declared, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’ 3
1 Kings 2:4
Context2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 4 ‘If your descendants watch their step 5 and live faithfully in my presence 6 with all their heart and being, 7 then,’ he promised, 8 ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 9
1 Kings 2:26
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 10 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 11 but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 12
1 Kings 3:1
Context3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 13 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 14
1 Kings 7:14
Context7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, 15 and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge 16 to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.
1 Kings 12:28
Context12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, 17 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 18 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 13:26
Context13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, 19 he said, “It is the prophet 20 who rebelled against the Lord. 21 The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up 22 and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” 23
1 Kings 15:18
Context15:18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it 24 to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:
1 Kings 15:23
Context15:23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 25 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 26
1 Kings 19:4
Context19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 27 and asked the Lord to take his life: 28 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 29
1 Kings 20:31
Context20:31 His advisers 30 said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. 31 Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads 32 and surrender 33 to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.”
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. 34 But I despise 35 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 36 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “eating and drinking.”
3 tn Heb “let the king, Adonijah, live!”
4 tn Heb “then the
5 tn Heb “guard their way.”
6 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”
7 tn Or “soul.”
8 tn Heb “saying.”
9 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
10 tn Or “field.”
11 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
12 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
13 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”
16 tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”
17 tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
18 tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.
19 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
20 tn Heb “the man of God.”
21 tn Heb “the mouth of the
22 tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”
23 tn Heb “according to the word of the
24 tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”
25 tn Heb “As for the rest of all the events of Asa, and all his strength and all which he did and the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
26 tn Heb “Yet in the time of his old age he became sick in his feet.”
27 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
28 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
29 tn Heb “fathers.”
30 tn Or “servants.”
31 tn Or “merciful.” The word used here often means “devoted” or “loyal.” Perhaps the idea is that the Israelite kings are willing to make treaties with other kings.
32 sn Sackcloth was worn as a sign of sorrow and repentance. The precise significance of the ropes on the head is uncertain, but it probably was a sign of submission. These actions were comparable to raising a white flag on the battlefield or throwing in the towel in a boxing match.
33 tn Heb “go out.”
34 tn Heb “to seek the
35 tn Or “hate.”
36 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.
