Discovery Box1 Kings 1:27 
Context1:27 Has my master the king authorized this without informing your servants 1 who should succeed my master the king on his throne?” 2
1 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 3 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 4 me what I should give you.”
1 Kings 20:11
Context20:11 The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.” 5
1 Kings 22:36
Context22:36 As the sun was setting, a cry went through the camp, “Each one should return to his city and to his homeland.”
1 tc Many Hebrew
2 tn Heb “From my master the king is this thing done, and you did not make known to your servants who will sit on the throne of my master the king after him?”
3 tn Or “revealed himself.”
4 tn Heb “ask.”
5 sn The point of the saying is that someone who is still preparing for a battle should not boast as if he has already won the battle. A modern parallel would be, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”
