Discovery Box1 Kings 1:51 
Context1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; 1 see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise 2 me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”
1 Kings 14:4
Context14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 3 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 4
1 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 5 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.” 6
1 tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Or “swear an oath to.”
3 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
4 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
5 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
6 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
