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 1:9
Context1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, 6 as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
1 Kings 1:13
Context1:13 Visit 7 King David and say to him, ‘My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise 8 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 9 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 1:41
Context1:41 Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. 10 When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” 11
1 Kings 2:15
Context2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom 12 was mine and all Israel considered me king. 13 But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. 14
1 Kings 2:20
Context2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. 15 Please don’t refuse me.” 16 He said, 17 “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”
1 Kings 2:22
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 18 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 19 that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, 20 “Go, strike him down.”
1 Kings 2:31
Context2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 21 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 22
1 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 23 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 24 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 25 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 26
1 Kings 3:9
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 27 so he can make judicial decisions for 28 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 29 Otherwise 30 no one is able 31 to make judicial decisions for 32 this great nation of yours.” 33
1 Kings 3:15
Context3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. 34 He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, 35 and held a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 3:21
Context3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, 36 dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 37
1 Kings 3:28
Context3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected 38 the king, for they realized 39 that he possessed supernatural wisdom 40 to make judicial decisions.
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 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 41 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 42
1 Kings 5:14
Context5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of 43 the work crews.
1 Kings 6:1
Context6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 44 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 7:2
Context7:2 He named 45 it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; 46 it was 150 feet 47 long, 75 feet 48 wide, and 45 feet 49 high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.
1 Kings 7:6
Context7:6 He made a colonnade 50 75 feet 51 long and 45 feet 52 wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 53
1 Kings 7:23
Context7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 54 It measured 15 feet 55 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 56 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 57
1 Kings 7:51
Context7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he 58 put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 59 It was there that 60 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:21
Context8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 61 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8:23
Context8:23 He prayed: 62 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 63 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 64
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 65 so that he might vindicate 66 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 10:5
Context10:5 the food in his banquet hall, 67 his servants and attendants, 68 their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. 69
1 Kings 10:17
Context10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas 70 of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. 71
1 Kings 11:24
Context11:24 He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. 72 When David tried to kill them, 73 they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.
1 Kings 11:27-28
Context11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: 74 Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 75 11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; 76 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 77 of Joseph.
1 Kings 11:31-32
Context11:31 Then he told Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you. 11:32 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 12:21
Context12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 78 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
1 Kings 13:3
Context13:3 That day he also announced 79 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 80 The altar will be split open and the ashes 81 on it will fall to the ground.” 82
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 83 When his sons came home, they told their father 84 everything the prophet 85 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 86
1 Kings 13:21-22
Context13:21 and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You 87 have rebelled against the Lord 88 and have not obeyed the command the Lord your God gave you. 13:22 You went back and ate and drank in this place, even though he said to you, “Do not eat or drink there.” 89 Therefore 90 your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’” 91
1 Kings 13:28
Context13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; 92 the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.
1 Kings 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 93 against the altar in Bethel 94 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 95 will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 14:4
Context14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 96 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 97
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. 98
1 Kings 15:13
Context15:13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother 99 from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 100 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 101
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 18:4
Context18:4 When Jezebel was killing 102 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 18:42
Context18:42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 19:13
Context19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden 103 a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 19:20
Context19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah 104 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
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 105 and besieged and attacked it. 106
1 Kings 20:7
Context20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders 107 of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. 108 Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”
1 Kings 20:25
Context20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. 109 Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. 110
1 Kings 20:36
Context20:36 So the prophet 111 said to him, “Because you have disobeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.
1 Kings 20:40
Context20:40 Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared.” The king of Israel said to him, “Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony.” 112
1 Kings 21:4
Context21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 113 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 114 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 115 and would not eat.
1 Kings 21:15
Context21:15 When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she 116 said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”
1 Kings 21:29
Context21:29 “Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse 117 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.” 118
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.” 119
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 120 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 121 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
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 22:35
Context22:35 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening; the blood from the wound ran down into the bottom of the chariot.
1 Kings 22:39
Context22:39 The rest of the events of Ahab’s reign, including a record of his accomplishments and how he built a luxurious palace and various cities, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 122
1 Kings 22:43
Context22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 123 (22:44) 124 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
1 Kings 22:51
Context22:51 In the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahab’s son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria. 125 He ruled for two years over Israel.
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 tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.
7 tn Heb “come, go to.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
8 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
9 tn Or “carry out, perform.”
10 tn Heb “And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard, now they had finished eating.”
11 tn Heb “Why is the city’s sound noisy?”
12 tn Or “kingship.”
13 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
14 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
15 tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”
16 tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”
17 tn Heb “and the king said to her.”
18 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
19 tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”
20 tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”
21 tn Heb “house.”
22 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
23 tn Heb “did.”
24 tn Heb “walked before.”
25 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
26 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.”
27 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
28 tn Heb “to judge.”
29 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
30 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
31 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
32 tn Heb “to judge.”
33 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
34 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
35 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
36 tn Heb “look.”
37 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
38 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
39 tn Heb “saw.”
40 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
41 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
42 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
43 tn Heb “was over.”
44 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
45 tn Heb “he built.”
46 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
47 tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”
48 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
49 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
50 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”
51 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
52 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
53 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.
54 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
sn This large basin that was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (2 Chr 4:6; cf. Exod 30:17-21).
55 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
56 tn Heb “five cubits.”
57 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
58 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
59 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
60 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
61 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
62 tn Heb “said.”
63 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
64 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
65 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
66 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
67 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
68 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
69 tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
70 sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.
71 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
72 tn Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”
73 tn The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23.
74 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
75 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
76 tn Heb “man of strength.”
77 tn Heb “house.”
78 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
79 tn Heb “gave.”
80 tn Heb “spoken.”
81 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
82 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
83 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
84 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.
85 tn Heb “the man of God.”
86 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.”
87 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.
88 tn Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the
89 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.’”
90 tn “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22.
91 tn Heb “will not go to the tomb of your fathers.”
92 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
93 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
94 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
95 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
96 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
97 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
98 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
99 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.
100 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
101 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
102 tn Heb “cutting off.”
103 tn Heb “look.”
104 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
105 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
106 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
107 tn Heb “elders.”
108 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”
109 tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”
110 tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”
111 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
112 tn Heb “so [i.e., in accordance with his testimony] is your judgment, you have determined [it].”
113 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
114 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
115 tn Heb “turned away his face.”
116 tn Heb “Jezebel”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“she”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
117 tn Or “humbles himself.” The expression occurs a second time later in this verse.
118 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.”
119 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
120 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
121 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
122 tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”
123 tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
124 sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.
125 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
