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 2:43
Context2:43 Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” 2
1 Kings 5:4
Context5:4 But now the Lord my God has made me secure on all fronts; there is no adversary or dangerous threat.
1 Kings 7:16
Context7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. 3
1 Kings 7:33
Context7:33 The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their crossbars, rims, spokes, and hubs were made of cast metal.
1 Kings 8:26
Context8:26 Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made 4 to your servant, my father David, be realized. 5
1 Kings 10:16
Context10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures 6 of gold were used for each shield.
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 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the
3 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
4 tn Heb “the words that you spoke.”
5 tn Or “prove to be reliable.”
6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.
