Discovery Box1 Kings 1:35 
Context1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed 1 that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”
1 Kings 1:45
Context1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 2 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.
1 Kings 1:47
Context1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 3 our master 4 King David, saying, ‘May your God 5 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 6 Then the king leaned 7 on the bed
1 Kings 2:15
Context2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom 8 was mine and all Israel considered me king. 9 But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. 10
1 Kings 3:15
Context3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. 11 He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, 12 and held a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 3:18
Context3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 13
1 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of 14 the work crews.
1 Kings 6:8
Context6:8 The entrance to the bottom 15 level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up 16 to the middle floor and then on up to the third 17 floor.
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 18 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 19 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 20
1 Kings 8:63
Context8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings 21 to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 22 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 23
1 Kings 9:7
Context9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 24 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 25 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 26 among all the nations.
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 27 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 28 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 29 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 11:31
Context11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
1 Kings 13:29
Context13:29 The old prophet 30 picked up the corpse of the prophet, 31 put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.
1 Kings 16:31
Context16:31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 32
1 Kings 17:13
Context17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. 33 But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.
1 Kings 19:6
Context19:6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 34
1 Kings 19:20
Context19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah 35 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 20:25
Context20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. 36 Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. 37
1 Kings 20:33
Context20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab 38 then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
1 Kings 20:42
Context20:42 The prophet 39 then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” 40
1 Kings 21:8
Context21:8 She wrote out orders, 41 signed Ahab’s name to them, 42 and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders 43 to the leaders 44 and to the nobles who lived in Naboth’s city. 45
1 Kings 21:13
Context21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him 46 outside the city and stoned him to death. 47
1 Kings 22:4
Context22:4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 48
1 Kings 22:17
Context22:17 Micaiah 49 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”
1 tn Or “commanded.”
2 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
3 tn Heb “to bless.”
4 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
5 tc Many Hebrew
6 tn Heb “make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne.” The term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) is used here of one’s fame and reputation.
7 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
8 tn Or “kingship.”
9 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
10 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
11 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
12 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
13 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
14 tn Heb “was over.”
15 tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
16 tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
17 tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew
18 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
19 tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
20 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
21 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
22 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
23 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
24 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
25 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.
26 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
27 tn Heb “and they will say.”
28 tn Heb “fathers.”
29 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
30 tn Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.
31 tn Heb “the man of God.”
32 tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”
sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.
33 tn Heb “according to your word.”
34 tn Heb “and again lay down”
35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
36 tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”
37 tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”
41 tn Heb “scrolls.”
42 tn Heb “in the name of Ahab.”
43 tn Heb “scrolls.”
44 tn Heb “elders.”
45 tn Heb “to the nobles who were in his city, the ones who lived with Naboth.”
46 tn Heb “led him.”
47 tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”
48 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
