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 2:23
Context2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 2 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 3
1 Kings 2:44
Context2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 4 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 5
1 Kings 2:46
Context2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. 6
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 7
1 Kings 3:14
Context3:14 If you follow my instructions 8 by obeying 9 my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, 10 then I will grant you long life.” 11
1 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 Hiram then sent this message to Solomon: “I received 12 the message you sent to me. I will give you all the cedars and evergreens you need. 13
1 Kings 8:34
Context8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.
1 Kings 10:13
Context10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. 14 Then she left and returned 15 to her homeland with her attendants.
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 16 and was buried in the city of his father David. 17 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 18
1 Kings 13:1
Context13:1 Just then 19 a prophet 20 from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, 21 as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
1 Kings 13:13
Context13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
1 Kings 14:28
Context14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
1 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
1 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!”
1 Kings 18:30-31
Context18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. 22 18:31 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 23 name.” 24
1 Kings 18:38
Context18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. 25 It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.
1 Kings 18:41
Context18:41 Then Elijah told Ahab, “Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.” 26
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 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 21:5
Context21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”
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 22:21
Context22:21 Then a spirit 27 stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’
1 Kings 22:26
Context22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.
1 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
2 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
3 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
4 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
5 tn Heb “The
6 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
7 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
8 tn Heb “walk in my ways.”
9 tn Or “keeping.”
10 tn Heb “walked.”
11 tn Heb “I will lengthen your days.”
12 tn Heb “heard.”
13 tn Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”
14 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
15 tn Heb “turned and went.”
16 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
17 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.
18 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.”
19 tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.
20 tn Heb “the man of God.”
21 tn Heb “came by the word of the
22 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
23 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.
24 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.
25 tn The words “from the sky” are added for stylistic reasons.
26 tn Heb “for [there is] the sound of the roar of the rain.”
27 tn Heb “the spirit.” The significance of the article prefixed to רוּחַ (ruakh) is uncertain, but it could contain a clue as to this spirit’s identity, especially when interpreted in light of v. 24. It is certainly possible, and probably even likely, that the article is used in a generic or dramatic sense and should be translated, “a spirit.” In the latter case it would show that this spirit was vivid and definite in the mind of Micaiah the storyteller. However, if one insists that the article indicates a well-known or universally known spirit, the following context provides a likely referent. Verse 24 tells how Zedekiah slapped Micaiah in the face and then asked sarcastically, “Which way did the spirit from the
