Discovery Box1 Kings 1:39 
Context1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 1 from the tent and poured it on 2 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”
1 Kings 3:9
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 3 so he can make judicial decisions for 4 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 5 Otherwise 6 no one is able 7 to make judicial decisions for 8 this great nation of yours.” 9
1 Kings 4:25
Context4:25 All the people of Judah and Israel had security; everyone from Dan to Beer Sheba enjoyed the produce of their vines and fig trees throughout Solomon’s lifetime. 10
1 Kings 8:33
Context8:33 “The time will come when 11 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 12 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 13 and pray for your help 14 in this temple,
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 15 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 16 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 17
1 Kings 8:44
Context8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 18 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 19 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 20
1 Kings 8:47
Context8:47 When your people 21 come to their senses 22 in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; 23 we have done evil.’
1 Kings 8:56
Context8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure 24 just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! 25
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 26 so that he might vindicate 27 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 28 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 29 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12:15
Context12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events 30 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 31 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
1 Kings 12:27
Context12:27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, 32 their loyalty could shift to their former master, 33 King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”
1 Kings 13:33
Context13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 34 he continued to appoint common people 35 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 36
1 Kings 18:39
Context18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 37 The Lord is the true God!”
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 38 outside the city and stoned him to death. 39
1 Kings 22:43
Context22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 40 (22:44) 41 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
1 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.
sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.
2 tn Or “anointed.”
3 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
4 tn Heb “to judge.”
5 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
6 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
7 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
8 tn Heb “to judge.”
9 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
10 tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”
11 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
13 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
14 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
15 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
16 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.
17 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
18 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
19 tn Or perhaps “to you, O
20 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
21 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
23 tn Or “done wrong.”
24 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
25 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
26 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
27 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
28 tn Heb “stood before.”
29 tn Heb “saying.”
30 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the
31 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the
32 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
33 tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”
34 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
35 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
36 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”
37 tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).
38 tn Heb “led him.”
39 tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”
40 tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
41 sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.
