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 1:33-34
Context1:33 and he 5 told them, “Take your master’s 6 servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. 7 1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint 8 him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
1 Kings 2:36
Context2:36 Next the king summoned 9 Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem 10 and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere! 11
1 Kings 3:11
Context3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, 12
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. 13
1 Kings 11:9-10
Context11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance 14 away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 15 11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 16 But he did not obey 17 the Lord’s command.
1 Kings 11:22
Context11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” 18 Hadad replied, 19 “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 20
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 21 and was buried in the city of his father David. 22 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 23
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 24
1 Kings 13:12-14
Context13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 25 the road the prophet 26 from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it 13:14 and took off after the prophet, 27 whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet 28 from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”
1 Kings 14:3
Context14:3 Take 29 ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 30 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 31
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 32 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 33 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:3
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. 34
1 Kings 15:24
Context15:24 Asa passed away 35 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
1 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. 36
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 37 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 17:21
Context17:21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”
1 Kings 18:15
Context18:15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all 38 lives (whom I serve), 39 I will make an appearance before him today.”
1 Kings 18:30
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. 40
1 Kings 19:5
Context19:5 He stretched out 41 and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger 42 touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
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 19:15
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 19:18
Context19:18 I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” 43
1 Kings 20:3
Context20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”
1 Kings 20:11
Context20:11 The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.” 44
1 Kings 20:16-17
Context20:16 They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily 45 in their quarters. 46 20:17 The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.” 47
1 Kings 20:35
Context20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” 48 But the man refused to wound him.
1 Kings 21:5
Context21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”
1 Kings 22:16
Context22:16 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 49 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
1 Kings 22:26-27
Context22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son. 22:27 Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water 50 until I safely return.”’” 51
1 Kings 22:32
Context22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
1 Kings 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 52 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 53 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
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 Heb “the king.”
6 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
7 tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”
8 tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).
9 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 tn Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”
12 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
13 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
14 tn Heb “bent his heart.”
15 sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.
16 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
17 tn Or “keep.”
18 tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”
19 tn Heb “and he said.”
20 sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the
21 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
22 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
23 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
24 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
25 tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).
26 tn Heb “the man of God.”
27 tn Heb “the man of God.”
28 tn Heb “the man of God.”
29 tn Heb “take in your hand.”
30 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
31 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
32 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
33 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
34 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
35 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
36 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
37 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
38 tn Traditionally, “the
39 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
40 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
41 tn Or “lay down.”
42 tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”
43 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
44 sn The point of the saying is that someone who is still preparing for a battle should not boast as if he has already won the battle. A modern parallel would be, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.”
45 tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”
46 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
47 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
48 tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the
49 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
50 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
51 tn Heb “come in peace.” So also in v. 28.
52 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
53 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
