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 1:35
Context1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed 6 that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”
1 Kings 2:30
Context2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 7
1 Kings 3:7
Context3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 8
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. 9
1 Kings 8:44
Context8:44 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 10 and they direct their prayers to the Lord 11 toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 12
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 13 so that he might vindicate 14 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 9:6
Context9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 15 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 16
1 Kings 11:21
Context11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 17 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 18 so I can return to my homeland.”
1 Kings 11:32
Context11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1 Kings 13:8
Context13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, 19 I could not go with you and eat and drink 20 in this place.
1 Kings 13:31
Context13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 21 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 14:6
Context14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. 22
1 Kings 16:2
Context16:2 “I raised you up 23 from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps 24 and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. 25
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 26 of water, so I can take a drink.”
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 27 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 Elijah 28 replied, “I have not brought disaster 29 on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.
1 Kings 19:2
Context19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, 30 “May the gods judge me severely 31 if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” 32
1 Kings 20:6-7
Context20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” 33 20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders 34 of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. 35 Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”
1 Kings 20:42
Context20:42 The prophet 36 then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” 37
1 Kings 21:4
Context21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 38 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 39 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 40 and would not eat.
1 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! 41 Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. 42 I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
1 Kings 21:20
Context21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 43 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 44 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 45 to doing evil in the sight of 46 the Lord.
1 Kings 21:29
Context21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse 47 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.” 48
1 Kings 22:4
Context22:4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 49
1 Kings 22:6
Context22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 50 They said, “Attack! The sovereign one 51 will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:17
Context22:17 Micaiah 52 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”
1 Kings 22:19
Context22:19 Micaiah 53 said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.
1 Kings 22:22
Context22:22 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 54 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 55 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
1 Kings 22:30
Context22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter 56 into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.
1 Kings 22:34
Context22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, 57 and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king 58 ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, 59 because I’m wounded.”
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 Or “commanded.”
7 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
8 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
9 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.
10 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
11 tn Or perhaps “to you, O
12 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
13 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
14 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
15 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
16 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
17 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
18 tn Heb “send me away.”
19 tn Heb “house.”
20 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
21 tn Heb “the man of God.”
22 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
23 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.
24 tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”
25 tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”
26 tn Heb “a little.”
27 tn Heb “the word of the
28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
29 tn Or “trouble.”
30 tn Heb “saying.”
31 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
32 tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
33 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”
34 tn Heb “elders.”
35 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”
36 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
37 tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”
38 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
39 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
40 tn Heb “turned away his face.”
41 tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”
42 tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”
43 tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
44 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”
46 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
47 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
48 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.”
49 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
50 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
51 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the
52 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
53 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
54 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
55 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
56 tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.
57 tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).
58 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
59 tn Heb “camp.”
