Discovery Box1 Kings 10:7 
Context10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 1 Your wisdom and wealth 2 surpass what was reported to me.
1 Kings 10:22
Context10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships 3 that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet 4 came into port with cargoes of 5 gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 6
1 Kings 11:2
Context11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! 7 If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” 8 But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 9
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 10 When his sons came home, they told their father 11 everything the prophet 12 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 13
1 Kings 13:25
Context13:25 Some men came by 14 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 15 They went and reported what they had seen 16 in the city where the old prophet lived.
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. 17
1 Kings 19:7
Context19:7 The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” 18
1 Kings 20:33
Context20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab 19 then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
1 Kings 22:15
Context22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” 20
1 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
2 tn Heb “good.”
3 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
4 tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”
5 tn Heb “came carrying.”
6 tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”
7 tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”
8 tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.
10 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
11 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.
12 tn Heb “the man of God.”
13 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.”
14 tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”
15 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
17 tn Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”
18 tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”
19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 sn “Attack! You will succeed; the
