Discovery Box1 Kings 1:45 
Context1:45 Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed 1 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 4:19
Context4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.
1 Kings 7:18
Context7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. 2
1 Kings 7:49
Context7:49 the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,
1 Kings 8:51
Context8:51 After all, 3 they are your people and your special possession 4 whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. 5
1 Kings 9:8
Context9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; 6 everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, 7 saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’
1 Kings 10:6
Context10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight 8 was true!
1 Kings 11:15
Context11:15 During David’s campaign against Edom, 9 Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.
1 Kings 15:15
Context15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 10
1 Kings 18:4
Context18:4 When Jezebel was killing 11 the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)
1 Kings 19:5
Context19:5 He stretched out 12 and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger 13 touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
1 tn I.e., designated by anointing with oil.
2 tn Heb “he made the pillars, and two rows surrounding one latticework to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and so he did for the second latticework.” The translation supplies “pomegranates” after “two rows,” and understands “pillars,” rather than “pomegranates,” to be the correct reading after “on top of.” The latter change finds support from many Hebrew
3 tn Or “for.”
4 tn Heb “inheritance.”
5 tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.
sn From the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. The metaphor of a furnace suggests fire and heat and is an apt image to remind the people of the suffering they endured while slaves in Egypt.
6 tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”
7 tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.
8 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
9 tn Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”
10 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the
11 tn Heb “cutting off.”
12 tn Or “lay down.”
13 tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”
