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 6:19
Context6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.
1 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:18
Context7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. 2
1 Kings 7:20
Context7:20 On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. 3
1 Kings 7:35-36
Context7:35 On top of each stand was a round opening three-quarters of a foot deep; 4 there were also supports and frames on top of the stands. 7:36 He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, 5 with wreaths 6 all around.
1 Kings 7:38
Context7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. 7 Each basin was six feet in diameter; 8 there was one basin for each stand.
1 Kings 9:23
Context9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. 9
1 Kings 13:9
Context13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 10 ‘Do not eat or drink 11 there and do not go home the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:17
Context13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 12 ‘Do not eat or drink 13 there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 14:24
Context14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes 14 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 15 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
1 Kings 17:15
Context17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. 16
1 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Elijah said to them: 17 “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:45
Context18:45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward 18 Jezreel.
1 Kings 19:3
Context19:3 Elijah was afraid, 19 so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,
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 21:11
Context21:11 The men of the 20 city, the leaders 21 and the nobles who lived there, 22 followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. 23
1 Kings 21:25
Context21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed 24 to doing evil in the sight of 25 the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 26
1 Kings 22:20
Context22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die 27 there?’ One said this and another that.
1 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
2 tn Heb “he made the pillars, and two rows surrounding one latticework to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and so he did for the second latticework.” The translation supplies “pomegranates” after “two rows,” and understands “pillars,” rather than “pomegranates,” to be the correct reading after “on top of.” The latter change finds support from many Hebrew
3 tn Heb “and the capitals on the two pillars, also above, close beside the bulge which was beside the latticework, two hundred pomegranates in rows around, on the second capital.” The precise meaning of the word translated “bulge” is uncertain.
4 tn Heb “and on top of the stand, a half cubit [in] height, round all around” (the meaning of this description is uncertain).
5 tn Heb “according to the space of each.”
6 tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.
7 tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).
8 tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.
9 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
10 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the
11 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
12 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
13 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
14 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
15 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
16 tn Heb “and she ate, she and he and her house [for] days.”
17 tn Heb “to the people.”
18 tn Heb “rode and went to.”
19 tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew
20 tn Heb “his.”
21 tn Heb “elders.”
22 tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”
23 tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”
24 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
25 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
26 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”
27 tn Heb “and fall.”
