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 1:47
Context1:47 The king’s servants have even come to congratulate 2 our master 3 King David, saying, ‘May your God 4 make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ 5 Then the king leaned 6 on the bed
1 Kings 3:6-7
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 7 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 8 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 9 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 10 3:7 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. 11
1 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. 12 They have remained there to this very day.
1 Kings 8:36
Context8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 13 you will then teach them the right way to live 14 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 15
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 16 so that he might vindicate 17 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 18 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 19
1 Kings 11:11
Context11:11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, 20 I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
1 Kings 11:32
Context11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1 Kings 11:36
Context11:36 I will leave 21 his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me 22 in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. 23
1 Kings 14:6
Context14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. 24
1 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 25 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 26
1 Kings 16:2
Context16:2 “I raised you up 27 from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps 28 and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. 29
1 Kings 18:5
Context18:5 Ahab told Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas 30 so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill 31 some of the animals.”
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 32 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 20:36
Context20:36 So the prophet 33 said to him, “Because you have disobeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.
1 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! 34 Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. 35 I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
1 Kings 21:29
Context21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse 36 before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” 37
1 Kings 22:22
Context22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 38 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 39 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
1 tn Or “commanded.”
2 tn Heb “to bless.”
3 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
4 tc Many Hebrew
5 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.
6 tn Or “bowed down; worshiped.”
7 tn Heb “did.”
8 tn Heb “walked before.”
9 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
10 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
11 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
12 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
13 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
14 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
15 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
16 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
17 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
18 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
19 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
20 tn Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”
21 tn Heb “give.”
22 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.
23 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”
24 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
25 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
26 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
27 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.
28 tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”
29 tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”
30 tn Heb “grass.”
31 tn Heb “to cut off.”
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
34 tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”
35 tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”
36 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
37 tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
39 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
