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 8:23
Context8:23 He prayed: 4 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 5 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 6
1 Kings 9:7
Context9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 7 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 8 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 9 among all the nations.
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 10 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 11 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 12 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 10:29
Context10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. 13
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 14 When his sons came home, they told their father 15 everything the prophet 16 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 17
1 Kings 14:9
Context14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. 18
1 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 He did this 19 because David had done what he approved 20 and had not disregarded any of his commandments 21 his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 20:1
Context20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria 22 and besieged and attacked it. 23
1 Kings 20:13
Context20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? 24 Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
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 Heb “said.”
5 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
6 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
7 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
10 tn Heb “and they will say.”
11 tn Heb “fathers.”
12 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
13 tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”
14 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
15 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.
16 tn Heb “the man of God.”
17 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.”
18 tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”
19 tn The words “he did this” are added for stylistic reasons.
20 tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the
21 tn Heb “and had not turned aside from all which he commanded him.”
22 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
23 tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”
24 tn Heb “this great horde.”
