Discovery Box1 Kings 1:6 
Context1:6 (Now his father had never corrected 1 him 2 by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. 3 )
1 Kings 1:24
Context1:24 Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?
1 Kings 8:51
Context8:51 After all, 4 they are your people and your special possession 5 whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. 6
1 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 7
1 Kings 9:20
Context9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 8
1 Kings 10:25
Context10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. 9
1 Kings 13:14
Context13:14 and took off after the prophet, 10 whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet 11 from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”
1 Kings 17:17
Context17:17 After this 12 the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
1 Kings 20:15
Context20:15 So Ahab 13 assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. 14
1 Kings 21:1
Context21:1 After this the following episode took place. 15 Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. 16
1 tn Or “disciplined.”
2 tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.
3 tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).
4 tn Or “for.”
5 tn Heb “inheritance.”
6 tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.
sn From the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. The metaphor of a furnace suggests fire and heat and is an apt image to remind the people of the suffering they endured while slaves in Egypt.
7 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
8 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
9 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
10 tn Heb “the man of God.”
11 tn Heb “the man of God.”
12 tn Heb “after these things.”
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”
15 tn Heb “after these things.” The words “the following episode took place” are added for stylistic reasons.
16 sn King Ahab of Samaria. Samaria, as the capital of the northern kingdom, here stands for the nation of Israel.
map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
