Discovery Box1 Kings 2:19 
Context2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet 1 her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, 2 and she sat at his right hand.
1 Kings 3:1
Context3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 3 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 4
1 Kings 7:14
Context7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, 5 and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge 6 to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.
1 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 7 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 8 Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). 9
1 Kings 8:65
Context8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt 10 in the south. 11
1 Kings 11:33
Context11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him 12 because they have 13 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 14 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 15
1 Kings 14:21
Context14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He 16 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, 17 the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 18 His mother was an Ammonite woman 19 named Naamah.
1 tn Or “meet.”
2 tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”
3 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”
6 tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”
7 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”
8 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
9 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
10 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
11 tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the
12 tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
13 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”
14 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”
15 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”
16 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 tn Heb “the city where the
19 tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.
