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 1:41
Context1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 6 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 7
1 Kings 2:9
Context2:9 But now 8 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 9 make sure he has a bloody death.” 10
1 Kings 2:24
Context2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 11 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
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. 12
1 Kings 8:5
Context8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 13
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 14 When his sons came home, they told their father 15 everything the prophet 16 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 17
1 Kings 14:4
Context14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 18 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 19
1 Kings 18:19
Context18:19 Now send out messengers 20 and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. 21
1 Kings 20:1
Context20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria 22 and besieged and attacked it. 23
1 Kings 20:6
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.” 24
1 Kings 20:23
Context20:23 Now the advisers 25 of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.
1 Kings 20:30
Context20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 26 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 27
1 Kings 22:10
Context22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 28 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 29 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22:13
Context22:13 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 30 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success.” 31
1 Kings 22:31
Context22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; 32 fight only the king of Israel.”
1 Kings 22:34
Context22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, 33 and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king 34 ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, 35 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 Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
7 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
8 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
9 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
10 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
11 tn Heb “house.”
12 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
13 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
14 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
15 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.
16 tn Heb “the man of God.”
17 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.”
18 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
19 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
20 tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.
21 tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”
22 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
23 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
24 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”
25 tn Or “servants.”
26 tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”
27 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”
28 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
29 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
30 tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”
31 tn Heb “let your words be like the word of each of them and speak good.”
32 tn Heb “small or great.”
33 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).
34 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Heb “camp.”
