Discovery Box1 Kings 1:36 
Context1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded 1 to the king: “So be it! 2 May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it! 3
1 Kings 1:48
Context1:48 and said 4 this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because 5 today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” 6
1 Kings 2:23
Context2:23 King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, 7 if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life! 8
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 2:44
Context2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. 11 The Lord will punish you for what you did. 12
1 Kings 3:2-3
Context3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, 13 because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 14 3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following 15 the practices 16 of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 17 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 18 me what I should give you.”
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. 19
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 6:37
Context6:37 In the month Ziv 20 of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign 21 the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 22 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 23
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 24 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, 25
1 Kings 8:4
Context8:4 The priests and Levites carried the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, 26 and all the holy items in the tent. 27
1 Kings 8:15
Context8:15 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 28 what he promised 29 my father David.
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. 30
1 Kings 8:22
Context8:22 Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. 31
1 Kings 8:57
Context8:57 May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.
1 Kings 8:61
Context8:61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God 32 by following 33 his rules and obeying 34 his commandments, as you are presently doing.” 35
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, 36
1 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to 37 other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. 38
1 Kings 11:10
Context11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 39 But he did not obey 40 the Lord’s command.
1 Kings 13:1
Context13:1 Just then 41 a prophet 42 from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, 43 as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
1 Kings 13:9
Context13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 44 ‘Do not eat or drink 45 there and do not go home the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:17
Context13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 46 ‘Do not eat or drink 47 there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 14:7
Context14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up 48 from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
1 Kings 14:14
Context14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. 49 It is ready to happen! 50
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 51 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 52
1 Kings 14:24
Context14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes 53 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 54 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
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 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 15:3-4
Context15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. 55 15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty 56 in Jerusalem by giving him a son 57 to succeed him 58 and by protecting Jerusalem. 59
1 Kings 15:15
Context15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 60
1 Kings 15:26
Context15:26 He did evil in the sight of 61 the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 62
1 Kings 15:30
Context15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel. 63
1 Kings 15:34
Context15:34 He did evil in the sight of 64 the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin. 65
1 Kings 16:26
Context16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 66 they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 67
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 68 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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 69 through Elijah.
1 Kings 17:24
Context17:24 The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.” 70
1 Kings 18:15
Context18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 71 lives (whom I serve), 72 I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 Kings 18:22
Context18:22 Elijah said to them: 73 “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
1 Kings 18:30-32
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. 74 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 75 name.” 76 18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 77 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 78 of seed.
1 Kings 18:38
Context18:38 Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. 79 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; 80 he tucked his robe into his belt 81 and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
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 19:12
Context19:12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. 82
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 21:25-26
Context21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed 83 to doing evil in the sight of 84 the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 85 21:26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, 86 just like the Amorites 87 whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)
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 22:16
Context22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 88 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
1 Kings 22:20
Context22:20 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die 89 there?’ One said this and another that.
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, 90 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); 91 dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. 92
1 tn Heb “answered and said.”
2 tn Or “Amen.”
3 tn Heb “So may the
4 tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”
5 tn Or “Blessed be the
6 tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”
7 tn Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”
8 tn Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “his throne.”
11 tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”
12 tn Heb “The
13 sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.
14 tn Heb “for the name of the
15 tn Heb “Solomon loved the
16 tn Or “policies, rules.”
17 tn Or “revealed himself.”
18 tn Heb “ask.”
19 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
20 sn In the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
21 tn The words “of Solomon’s reign” are added for clarification. See v. 1.
22 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
24 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
25 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.
26 tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”
sn The tent of meeting. See Exod 33:7-11.
27 tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the
28 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”
29 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”
30 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
31 tn Or “heaven.”
32 tn Heb “may your hearts be complete with the
33 tn Heb “walking in.”
34 tn Heb “keeping.”
35 tn Heb “as this day.”
36 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
37 tn Heb “bent his heart after.”
38 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
39 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
40 tn Or “keep.”
41 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.
42 tn Heb “the man of God.”
43 tn Heb “came by the word of the
44 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the
45 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
46 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
47 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
48 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 7-11 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 7-9) and the main clause announcing the punishment (vv. 10-11). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.
49 tn Heb “house.”
50 tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.
51 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
52 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
53 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
54 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
55 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
56 tn Heb “gave him a lamp.”
57 tc The Old Greek has the plural “his sons.”
58 tn Heb “by raising up his son after him.”
59 tn Heb “and by causing Jerusalem to stand firm.”
60 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the
61 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
62 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
63 tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the
64 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
65 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
66 tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
67 tn Heb “angering the
68 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
69 tn Heb “out, according to the word of the
70 tn Heb “you are a man of God and the word of the
sn This episode is especially significant in light of Ahab’s decision to promote Baal worship in Israel. In Canaanite mythology the drought that swept over the region (v. 1) would signal that Baal, a fertility god responsible for providing food for his subjects, had been defeated by the god of death and was imprisoned in the underworld. While Baal was overcome by death and unable to function like a king, Israel’s God demonstrated his sovereignty and superiority to death by providing food for a widow and restoring life to her son. And he did it all in Sidonian territory, Baal’s back yard, as it were. The episode demonstrates that Israel’s God, not Baal, is the true king who provides food and controls life and death. This polemic against Baalism reaches its climax in the next chapter, when the
71 tn Traditionally, “the
72 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
73 tn Heb “to the people.”
74 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
75 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.
76 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.
77 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the
78 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
79 tn The words “from the sky” are added for stylistic reasons.
80 tn Heb “and the hand of the
81 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).
82 tn Heb “a voice, calm, soft.”
83 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
84 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
85 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”
86 tn The Hebrew 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 אֱלִילִים (’elilim, “worthless things”) and הֲבָלִים (havalim, “vanities” or “empty winds”).
87 tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”
88 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
89 tn Heb “and fall.”
90 tn Heb “Listen.”
91 tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”
92 tn Heb “according to the word of the
