Discovery Box1 Kings 1:4 
Context1:4 The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her. 1
1 Kings 1:6
Context1:6 (Now his father had never corrected 2 him 3 by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. 4 )
1 Kings 1:15
Context1:15 So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters. 5 (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)
1 Kings 4:29
Context4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding 6 was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.
1 Kings 10:11
Context10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.
1 Kings 11:10
Context11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 7 But he did not obey 8 the Lord’s command.
1 tn Heb “did not know her.”
2 tn Or “disciplined.”
3 tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.
4 tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).
5 tn Or “bedroom.”
6 tn Heb “heart,” i.e., mind. (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
7 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
8 tn Or “keep.”
