Discovery Box1 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, 1 as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.
1 Kings 1:44
Context1:44 The king sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites and they put him on the king’s mule.
1 Kings 2:30
Context2:30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the Lord, he said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” But he replied, “No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 2
1 Kings 2:35
Context2:35 The king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada to take his place at the head of 3 the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest to take Abiathar’s place. 4
1 Kings 2:38
Context2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 5 Your servant will do as you say.” 6 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 7
1 Kings 3:28
Context3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected 8 the king, for they realized 9 that he possessed supernatural wisdom 10 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 5:1
Context5:1 (5:15) 11 King Hiram of Tyre 12 sent messengers 13 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
1 Kings 10:10
Context10:10 She gave the king 120 talents 14 of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. 15
1 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 16 the supervisor of the work crews, 17 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 18
1 Kings 12:27
Context12:27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, 19 their loyalty could shift to their former master, 20 King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”
1 Kings 15:22
Context15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 21 King Asa used the materials to build up 22 Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.
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 16:16
Context16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: 23 “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” 24 So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.
1 Kings 20:22
Context20:22 The prophet 25 visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. 26 Determine 27 what you must do, for in the spring 28 the king of Syria will attack 29 you.”
1 Kings 22:3
Context22:3 The king of Israel said to his servants, “Surely you recognize that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, though we are hesitant to reclaim it from the king of Syria.” 30
1 Kings 22:6
Context22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 31 They said, “Attack! The sovereign one 32 will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:10
Context22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 33 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 34 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22:30-31
Context22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter 35 into the battle; but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle. 22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; 36 fight only the king of Israel.”
1 Kings 22:34
Context22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, 37 and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king 38 ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, 39 because I’m wounded.”
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. 40 He ruled for two years over Israel.
1 tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.
2 tn Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”
3 tn Heb “over.”
4 tc The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.
5 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
6 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
7 tn Heb “many days.”
8 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
9 tn Heb “saw.”
10 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
11 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
12 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
13 tn Heb “his servants.”
14 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
15 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
16 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.
17 sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.
18 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn Heb “the heart of these people could return to their master.”
21 tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
22 tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”
23 tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”
24 tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”
25 tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).
26 tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”
27 tn Heb “know and see.”
28 tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”
29 tn Heb “go up against.”
30 tn Heb “Do you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, and we hesitate to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course, you must know!”
31 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
32 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the
33 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
34 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
35 tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives. See IBHS 594 §35.5.2a. Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.
36 tn Heb “small or great.”
37 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).
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “camp.”
40 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
