Discovery Box1 Kings 1:41 
Context1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 1 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 2
1 Kings 1:45
Context1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 3 him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.
1 Kings 2:29
Context2:29 When King Solomon heard 4 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 5 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 3:4
Context3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 6 Solomon would offer up 7 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
1 Kings 3:18
Context3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 8
1 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, 9 dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 10
1 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 He made a colonnade 11 75 feet 12 long and 45 feet 13 wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 14
1 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. 15 They have remained there to this very day.
1 Kings 8:23
Context8:23 He prayed: 16 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 17 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 18
1 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 19 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 20 I will be constantly present there. 21
1 Kings 10:19
Context10:19 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. 22
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 23 When his sons came home, they told their father 24 everything the prophet 25 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 26
1 Kings 13:22
Context13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 27 Therefore 28 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 29
1 Kings 13:24
Context13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. 30 His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. 31
1 Kings 16:16
Context16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: 32 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 33 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
1 Kings 16:24
Context16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria 34 from Shemer for two talents 35 of silver. He launched a construction project there 36 and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.
1 Kings 17:1
Context17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 37 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 38
1 Kings 17:10
Context17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup 39 of water, so I can take a drink.”
1 Kings 18:40
Context18:40 Elijah told them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let even one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed 40 them there.
1 Kings 18:43
Context18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” 41 Seven times Elijah sent him to look. 42
1 Kings 19:6
Context19:6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 43
1 Kings 19:19
Context19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
1 Kings 20:10
Context20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 44 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 45
1 Kings 21:18
Context21:18 “Get up, go down and meet King Ahab of Israel who lives in Samaria. He is at the vineyard of Naboth; he has gone down there to take possession of it.
1 tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
2 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
3 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
4 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
5 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
6 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
7 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
8 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
9 tn Heb “look.”
10 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
11 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
12 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
13 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
14 tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.
15 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
16 tn Heb “said.”
17 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
18 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
19 tn Heb “I have heard.”
20 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
21 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
22 tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”
23 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
24 tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.
25 tn Heb “the man of God.”
26 tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”
27 tn Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”
28 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
29 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
30 tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”
31 tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”
32 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
33 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
34 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
35 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 150 pounds of silver.
36 tn Heb “he built up the hill.”
37 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
38 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
39 tn Heb “a little.”
40 tn Or “slaughtered.”
41 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the
42 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
43 tn Heb “and again lay down”
44 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
45 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”
