Discovery Box1 Kings 1:8 
Context1:8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors 1 did not ally themselves 2 with Adonijah.
1 Kings 1:12
Context1:12 Now 3 let me give you some advice as to how 4 you can save your life and your son Solomon’s life.
1 Kings 1:21
Context1:21 If a decision is not made, 5 when my master the king is buried with his ancestors, 6 my son Solomon and I 7 will be considered state criminals.” 8
1 Kings 1:26
Context1:26 But he did not invite me – your servant – or Zadok the priest, or Benaiah son of Jehoiada, or your servant Solomon.
1 Kings 1:33
Context1:33 and he 9 told them, “Take your master’s 10 servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. 11
1 Kings 1:36
Context1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded 12 to the king: “So be it! 13 May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it! 14
1 Kings 1:42
Context1:42 As he was still speaking, Jonathan 15 son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in, for 16 an important man like you must be bringing good news.” 17
1 Kings 2:13
Context2:13 Haggith’s son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come in peace?” He answered, “Yes.” 18
1 Kings 2:39
Context2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”
1 Kings 2:46
Context2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. 19
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 20
1 Kings 4:3
Context4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. 21
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.
1 Kings 11:23
Context11:23 God also brought against Solomon 22 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
1 Kings 11:26
Context11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against 23 the king. He was an Ephraimite 24 from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.
1 Kings 11:43
Context11:43 Then Solomon passed away 25 and was buried in the city of his father David. 26 His son Rehoboam replaced him as king. 27
1 Kings 12:2
Context12:2 28 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. 29
1 Kings 12:23
Context12:23 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah, and to all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the rest of the people,
1 Kings 14:31
Context14:31 Rehoboam passed away 30 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah 31 replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:4
Context15:4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty 32 in Jerusalem by giving him a son 33 to succeed him 34 and by protecting Jerusalem. 35
1 Kings 15:24-25
Context15:24 Asa passed away 36 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
15:25 In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.
1 Kings 16:3
Context16:3 So I am ready to burn up 37 Baasha and his family, and make your family 38 like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:26
Context16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 39 they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 40
1 Kings 17:17
Context17:17 After this 41 the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
1 Kings 17:20
Context17:20 Then he called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
1 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!”
1 Kings 22:11
Context22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”
1 Kings 22:26
Context22:26 Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.
1 Kings 22:41
Context22:41 In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.
1 Kings 22:50
Context22:50 Jehoshaphat passed away 42 and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor 43 David. His son Jehoram replaced him as king.
1 tn Or “bodyguard” (Heb “mighty men”).
2 tn Heb “were not.”
3 tn Heb “now, come.” The imperative of הָלַךְ (halakh) is here used as an introductory interjection. See BDB 234 s.v. חָלַךְ.
4 tn Or “so that.”
5 tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.
6 tn Heb “lies down with his fathers.”
7 tn Heb “I and my son Solomon.” The order has been reversed in the translation for stylistic reasons.
8 tn Heb “will be guilty”; NASB “considered offenders”; TEV “treated as traitors.”
9 tn Heb “the king.”
10 tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.
11 tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”
12 tn Heb “answered and said.”
13 tn Or “Amen.”
14 tn Heb “So may the
15 tn The Hebrew text has “look” at this point. The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh), “look draws attention to Jonathan’s arrival and invites the audience to view the scene through the eyes of the participants.
16 tn Or “surely.”
17 tn Heb “you are a man of strength [or “ability”] and you bring a message [that is] good.” Another option is to understand the phrase אִישׁ חַיִל (’ish khayil) in the sense of “a worthy man,” that is “loyal.” See also 1 Kgs 1:52 and HALOT 311 s.v. חַיִל.
18 tn Heb “[in] peace.”
19 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
20 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
21 tn Heb “were scribes”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “secretaries”; TEV, NLT “court secretaries.”
22 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “raised a hand against.”
24 tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).
25 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
26 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.
27 tc Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”
28 tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.
29 tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).
30 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
31 tn In the Hebrew text the name is spelled “Abijam” here and in 1 Kgs 15:1-8.
32 tn Heb “gave him a lamp.”
33 tc The Old Greek has the plural “his sons.”
34 tn Heb “by raising up his son after him.”
35 tn Heb “and by causing Jerusalem to stand firm.”
36 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
37 tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר (ba’ar) as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I am ready to sweep away Baasha and his family.” Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.
38 tc The Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and some
39 tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
40 tn Heb “angering the
41 tn Heb “after these things.”
42 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
43 tn Heb “with his fathers in the city of his father.”
