Discovery Box1 Kings 1:40 
Context1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. 1
1 Kings 1:50
Context1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 2
1 Kings 2:34
Context2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; 3 he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
1 Kings 7:22
Context7:22 The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.
1 Kings 7:47
Context7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. 4
1 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 5
1 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well 6 he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. 7
1 Kings 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
1 Kings 17:5
Context17:5 So he did 8 as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
1 Kings 18:3
Context18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. 9
1 tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
2 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.
3 tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
5 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”
6 tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”
7 tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
8 tn Heb “So he went and did.”
9 tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the
