Discovery Box1 Kings 1:30 
Context1:30 I will keep 1 today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”
1 Kings 3:7
Context3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 2
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 3 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 4
1 Kings 8:28
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 5 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 6 the desperate prayer 7 your servant is presenting to you 8 today.
1 Kings 11:2
Context11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! 9 If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” 10 But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 11
1 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. 12
1 Kings 14:13
Context14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family 13 who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
1 Kings 17:21
Context17:21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”
1 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
2 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
3 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
4 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
5 tn Heb “turn to.”
6 tn Heb “by listening to.”
7 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
8 tn Heb “praying before you.”
9 tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”
10 tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
11 tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.
12 tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”
13 tn Heb “house.”
