Discovery Box1 Kings 2:15 
Context2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom 1 was mine and all Israel considered me king. 2 But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. 3
1 Kings 2:20
Context2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. 4 Please don’t refuse me.” 5 He said, 6 “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”
1 Kings 2:22
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 7 Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 2:24
Context2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 8 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 2:31
Context2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 9 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 10
1 Kings 2:38
Context2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 11 Your servant will do as you say.” 12 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 13
1 Kings 3:6
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 14 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 15 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 16 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 17
1 Kings 3:18
Context3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 18
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 19 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 20
1 Kings 8:28
Context8:28 But respond favorably to 21 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 22 the desperate prayer 23 your servant is presenting to you 24 today.
1 Kings 9:3
Context9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 25 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 26 I will be constantly present there. 27
1 Kings 9:7
Context9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 28 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 29 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 30 among all the nations.
1 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! 31 Your wisdom and wealth 32 surpass what was reported to me.
1 Kings 11:21
Context11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 33 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 34 so I can return to my homeland.”
1 Kings 11:32
Context11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
1 Kings 13:31
Context13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 35 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 36 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.” 37
1 Kings 19:20
Context19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah 38 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 20:6-7
Context20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” 39 20:7 The king of Israel summoned all the leaders 40 of the land and said, “Notice how this man is looking for trouble. 41 Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him.”
1 Kings 20:10
Context20:10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him, “May the gods judge me severely 42 if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 43
1 Kings 20:32
Context20:32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, “Your servant 44 Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab 45 replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 46
1 Kings 21:4
Context21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 47 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 48 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 49 and would not eat.
1 Kings 21:20
Context21:20 When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, 50 “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah 51 replied, “I have found you, because you are committed 52 to doing evil in the sight of 53 the Lord.
1 Kings 22:4
Context22:4 Then he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal.” 54
1 tn Or “kingship.”
2 tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”
3 tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the
4 tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”
5 tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”
6 tn Heb “and the king said to her.”
7 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
8 tn Heb “house.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
11 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
12 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
13 tn Heb “many days.”
14 tn Heb “did.”
15 tn Heb “walked before.”
16 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
17 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
18 sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.
19 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
20 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
21 tn Heb “turn to.”
22 tn Heb “by listening to.”
23 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
24 tn Heb “praying before you.”
25 tn Heb “I have heard.”
26 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).
27 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”
28 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
29 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.
30 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
31 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
32 tn Heb “good.”
33 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
34 tn Heb “send me away.”
35 tn Heb “the man of God.”
36 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
37 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”
40 tn Heb “elders.”
41 tn Heb “Know and see that this [man] is seeking trouble.”
42 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
43 tn Heb “if the dirt of Samaria suffices for the handfuls of all the people who are at my feet.”
44 sn Your servant. By referring to Ben Hadad as Ahab’s servant, they are suggesting that Ahab make him a subject in a vassal treaty arrangement.
45 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
46 sn He is my brother. Ahab’s response indicates that he wants to make a parity treaty and treat Ben Hadad as an equal partner.
47 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
48 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
49 tn Heb “turned away his face.”
50 tn Heb “and Ahab said to Elijah.” The narrative is elliptical and streamlined. The words “when Elijah arrived” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
51 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
52 tn Heb “you have sold yourself.”
53 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
54 tn Heb “Like me, like you; like my people, like your people; like my horses; like your horses.”
