Discovery Box1 Kings 1:34 
Context1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint 1 him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
1 Kings 1:37
Context1:37 As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!” 2
1 Kings 1:39
Context1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 3 from the tent and poured it on 4 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”
1 Kings 2:27
Context2:27 Solomon dismissed Abiathar from his position as priest of the Lord, 5 fulfilling the decree of judgment the Lord made in Shiloh against the family of Eli. 6
1 Kings 2:29
Context2:29 When King Solomon heard 7 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 8 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 2:33
Context2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, 9 and his dynasty.” 10
1 Kings 3:9
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 11 so he can make judicial decisions for 12 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 13 Otherwise 14 no one is able 15 to make judicial decisions for 16 this great nation of yours.” 17
1 Kings 3:14
Context3:14 If you follow my instructions 18 by obeying 19 my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, 20 then I will grant you long life.” 21
1 Kings 5:7
Context5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 22 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
1 Kings 5:12
Context5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. 23
1 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 24 long, 30 feet 25 wide, and 45 feet 26 high.
1 Kings 7:12
Context7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. 27
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 28 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 29
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 30 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 7:48
Context7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, 31
1 Kings 8:6
Context8:6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned 32 place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.
1 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 33 It was there that 34 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:18
Context8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 35
1 Kings 8:21
Context8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 36 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 37
1 Kings 9:10
Context9:10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, 38
1 Kings 9:15
Context9:15 Here are the details concerning the work crews 39 King Solomon conscripted 40 to build the Lord’s temple, his palace, the terrace, the wall of Jerusalem, 41 and the cities of 42 Hazor, 43 Megiddo, 44 and Gezer.
1 Kings 10:1
Context10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, 45 she came to challenge 46 him with difficult questions. 47
1 Kings 11:6
Context11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; 48 he did not remain loyal to 49 the Lord, like his father David had.
1 Kings 13:9
Context13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 50 ‘Do not eat or drink 51 there and do not go home the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:16-17
Context13:16 But he replied, “I can’t go back with you 52 or eat and drink 53 with you in this place. 13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 54 ‘Do not eat or drink 55 there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:24
Context13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. 56 His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. 57
1 Kings 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 58 against the altar in Bethel 59 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 60 will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 14:11
Context14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family 61 who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
1 Kings 14:14
Context14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. 62 It is ready to happen! 63
1 Kings 14:18
Context14:18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted 64 through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 65 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 66
1 Kings 14:26
Context14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 15:12
Context15:12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols 67 his ancestors 68 had made.
1 Kings 15:14
Context15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 69
1 Kings 15:26
Context15:26 He did evil in the sight of 70 the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 71
1 Kings 15:34
Context15:34 He did evil in the sight of 72 the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 73
1 Kings 16:12
Context16:12 Zimri destroyed Baasha’s entire family, just as the Lord had predicted to Baasha 74 through Jehu the prophet.
1 Kings 16:19
Context16:19 This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of 75 the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning. 76
1 Kings 17:5
Context17:5 So he did 77 as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
1 Kings 17:16
Context17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised 78 through Elijah.
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 79 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 18:4
Context18:4 When Jezebel was killing 80 the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)
1 Kings 18:15
Context18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 81 lives (whom I serve), 82 I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Elijah said to them: 83 “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:31-32
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 84 name.” 85 18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 86 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 87 of seed.
1 Kings 18:38
Context18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. 88 It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.
1 Kings 18:46
Context18:46 Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; 89 he tucked his robe into his belt 90 and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
1 Kings 19:7
Context19:7 The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” 91
1 Kings 19:9
Context19:9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
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 19:18
Context19:18 I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” 92
1 Kings 20:35
Context20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” 93 But the man refused to wound him.
1 Kings 21:25
Context21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed 94 to doing evil in the sight of 95 the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 96
1 Kings 22:11-12
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.’” 22:12 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 22:18
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 22:20
Context22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die 97 there?’ One said this and another that.
1 Kings 22:24
Context22:24 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”
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, 98 all you people.”
1 Kings 22:38
Context22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); 99 dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. 100
1 Kings 22:52
Context22:52 He did evil in the sight of 101 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 102 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 103
1 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
2 tn Heb “and may he make his throne greater than the throne of my master King David.”
3 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.
sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.
4 tn Or “anointed.”
5 tn Heb “Solomon drove out Abiathar from being a priest to the
6 tn Heb “fulfilling the word of the
7 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
8 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “his throne.”
11 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
12 tn Heb “to judge.”
13 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
14 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
15 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
16 tn Heb “to judge.”
17 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
18 tn Heb “walk in my ways.”
19 tn Or “keeping.”
20 tn Heb “walked.”
21 tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”
22 tn Or “Blessed be the
23 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
24 tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
26 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
27 tn Or “the porch of the temple.”
28 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
29 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
30 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
31 tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.
sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.
32 tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
33 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
34 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
35 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
36 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
37 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
38 tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the
39 sn The work crews. This Hebrew word מַס (mas) refers to a group of laborers conscripted for royal or public service.
40 tn Heb “raised up.”
41 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
42 tn The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
43 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
44 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
45 tn Heb “the report about Solomon.” The Hebrew text also has, “to the name of the
46 tn Or “test.”
47 tn Or “riddles.”
48 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
49 tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”
50 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the
51 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
52 tn Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”
53 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
54 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
55 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
56 tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”
57 tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”
58 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
59 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
60 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
61 tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.
62 tn Heb “house.”
63 tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.
64 tn Heb “according to the word of the
65 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
66 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
67 tn The word used here, גִלּוּלִים [gillulim], is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), “vanities” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).
68 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
69 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the
70 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
71 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
72 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
73 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
74 tn Heb “according to the word of the
75 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
76 tn Heb “walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin.”
77 tn Heb “So he went and did.”
78 tn Heb “out, according to the word of the
79 tn Heb “the word of the
80 tn Heb “cutting off.”
81 tn Traditionally, “the
82 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
83 tn Heb “to the people.”
84 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.
85 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.
86 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the
87 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
88 tn The words “from the sky” are added for stylistic reasons.
89 tn Heb “and the hand of the
90 tn Heb “and girded up his loins.” The idea is that of gathering up the robes and tucking them into the sash or belt so that they do not get in the way of the legs when running (or working or fighting).
91 tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”
92 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
93 tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the
94 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
95 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
96 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”
97 tn Heb “and fall.”
98 tn Heb “Listen.”
99 tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”
100 tn Heb “according to the word of the
101 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
102 tn Or “way.”
103 tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”
