Discovery Box1 Kings 1:3 
Context1:3 So they looked through all Israel 1 for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1 Kings 1:21
Context1:21 If a decision is not made, 2 when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 3 my son Solomon and I 4 will be considered state criminals.” 5
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.” 6
1 Kings 2:23
Context2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 7 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 8
1 Kings 2:36
Context2:36 Next the king summoned 9 Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem 10 and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! 11
1 Kings 2:39
Context2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”
1 Kings 2:44
Context2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 12 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 13
1 Kings 2:46
Context2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. 14
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 15
1 Kings 3:13
Context3:13 Furthermore, I am giving 16 you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. 17
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 4:5
Context4:5 Azariah son of Nathan was supervisor of 18 the district governors.
Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to 19 the king.
1 Kings 4:7
Context4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 20 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 21
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 22 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 9:26
Context9:26 King Solomon also built ships 23 in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
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 24 was true!
1 Kings 10:13
Context10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. 25 Then she left and returned 26 to her homeland with her attendants.
1 Kings 10:27
Context10:27 The king made silver as plentiful 27 in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was 28 as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. 29
1 Kings 11:1
Context11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
1 Kings 11:23
Context11:23 God also brought against Solomon 30 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:26
Context11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against 31 the king. He was an Ephraimite 32 from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
1 Kings 11:40
Context11:40 Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt and found refuge with King Shishak of Egypt. 33 He stayed in Egypt until Solomon died.
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 34 and was buried in the city of his father David. 35 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 36
1 Kings 12:2
Context12:2 37 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. 38
1 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 39 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
1 Kings 12:23
Context12:23 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah, and to all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the rest of the people,
1 Kings 14:14
Context14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. 40 It is ready to happen! 41
1 Kings 14:27-28
Context14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard 42 who protected the entrance to the royal palace. 14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 43 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 44 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:24-25
Context15:24 Asa passed away 45 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
15:25 In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.
1 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. 46
1 Kings 16:23
Context16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
1 Kings 19:15-16
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. 19:16 You must anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to take your place as prophet.
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.” 47
1 Kings 20:20
Context20:20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; 48 the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.
1 Kings 20:38
Context20:38 The prophet then went and stood by the road, waiting for the king. He also disguised himself by putting a bandage down over his eyes.
1 Kings 20:41
Context20:41 The prophet 49 quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets.
1 Kings 21:1
Context21:1 After this the following episode took place. 50 Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 51
1 Kings 21:10
Context21:10 Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
1 Kings 22:12
Context22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 52 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 22:27
Context22:27 Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water 53 until I safely return.”’” 54
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 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 55 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 56 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”
2 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
3 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
6 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.”
7 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
8 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
9 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”
12 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
13 tn Heb “The
14 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
15 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
16 tn The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.
17 tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”
18 tn Heb “was over.”
19 tn Heb “close associate of”; KJV, ASV, NASB “the king’s friend” (a title for an adviser, not just an acquaintance).
20 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
22 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
23 tn Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).
24 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
25 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
26 tn Heb “turned and went.”
27 tn The words “as plentiful” are added for clarification.
28 tn Heb “he made.”
29 tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”
30 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “raised a hand against.”
32 tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).
33 tn Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”
34 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
35 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
36 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
37 tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.
38 tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).
39 tn Heb “came.”
40 tn Heb “house.”
41 tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.
42 tn Heb “runners.”
43 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
44 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
45 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
46 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
47 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.”
48 tn Heb “each struck down his man.”
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
50 tn Heb “after these things.” The words “the following episode took place” are added for stylistic reasons.
51 sn King Ahab of Samaria. Samaria, as the capital of the northern kingdom, here stands for the nation of Israel.
map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
52 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
53 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
54 tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.
55 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
56 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
