Discovery Box1 Kings 1:5 
Context1:5 Now Adonijah, son of David and Haggith, 1 was promoting himself, 2 boasting, 3 “I will be king!” He managed to acquire 4 chariots and horsemen, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 5
1 Kings 1:11
Context1:11 Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Has it been reported to you 6 that Haggith’s son Adonijah has become king behind our master David’s back? 7
1 Kings 1:13
Context1:13 Visit 8 King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise 9 your servant, “Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne”? So why has Adonijah become king?’
1 Kings 1:17
Context1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’
1 Kings 1:30
Context1:30 I will keep 10 today the oath I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: ‘Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.’”
1 Kings 1:38
Context1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites 11 went down, put Solomon on King David’s mule, and led him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:44
Context1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.
1 Kings 2:22
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 12 Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 2:29
Context2:29 When King Solomon heard 13 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 14 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 2:35
Context2:35 The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of 15 the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place. 16
1 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 17 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 18 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 19 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 20
1 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, 21 dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 22
1 Kings 4:12
Context4:12 Baana son of Ahilud was in charge of Taanach and Megiddo, 23 as well as all of Beth Shan next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth Shan to Abel Meholah and on past Jokmeam.
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 5:7
Context5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 24 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
1 Kings 11:12-13
Context11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead. 11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave 25 your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”
1 Kings 11:20
Context11:20 Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, 26 named Genubath. Tahpenes raised 27 him in Pharaoh’s palace; Genubath grew up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s sons.
1 Kings 11:36
Context11:36 I will leave 28 his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me 29 in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. 30
1 Kings 12:15
Context12:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events 31 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 32 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
1 Kings 12:21
Context12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 33 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 Kings 15:27
Context15:27 Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against Nadab 34 and assassinated him in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory. This happened while Nadab and all the Israelite army were besieging Gibbethon.
1 Kings 15:33
Context15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.
1 Kings 16:8
Context16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.
1 Kings 16:13
Context16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 35
1 Kings 16:21
Context16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.
1 Kings 16:31
Context16:31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal. 36
1 Kings 17:13
Context17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. 37 But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.
1 Kings 17:19
Context17:19 He said to her, “Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
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 21:29
Context21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse 38 before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.” 39
1 Kings 22:24
Context22:24 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”
1 Kings 22:51-52
Context22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria. 40 He ruled for two years over Israel. 22:52 He did evil in the sight of 41 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 42 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 43
1 tn Heb “son of Haggith,” but since this formula usually designates the father (who in this case was David), the translation specifies that David was Adonijah’s father.
sn Haggith was one of David’s wives (2 Sam 3:4; 2 Chr 3:2).
2 tn Heb “lifting himself up.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Or “he acquired for himself.”
5 tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”
6 tn Heb “Have you not heard?”
7 tn Heb “and our master David does not know.”
8 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
9 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
10 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
11 sn The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.
12 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
13 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
14 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
15 tn Heb “over.”
16 tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.
17 tn Heb “did.”
18 tn Heb “walked before.”
19 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
20 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
21 tn Heb “look.”
22 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
23 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
24 tn Or “Blessed be the
25 tn Heb “give.”
26 tn Heb “bore him Genubath his son.”
27 tc The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ (vattigmÿlehu, “weaned him”) but a slight alteration of the consonantal text yields וַתִּגְדְלֵהוּ (vattigdÿlehu, “raised him”), which seems to make better sense.
28 tn Heb “give.”
29 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.
30 tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”
31 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from the
32 tn Heb “so that he might bring to pass his word which the
33 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
34 tn Heb “against him”; the referent (Nadab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Heb “angering the
36 tn Heb “and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.”
sn The Canaanites worshiped Baal as a storm and fertility god.
37 tn Heb “according to your word.”
38 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
39 tn Heb “I will not bring the disaster during his days, [but] in the days of his son I will bring the disaster on his house.”
40 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
41 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
42 tn Or “way.”
43 tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”
