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 5:5-6
Context5:5 So I have decided 3 to build a temple to honor the Lord 4 my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ 5 5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
1 Kings 6:6
Context6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet 6 wide, the middle floor nine feet 7 wide, and the third floor ten and a half 8 feet wide. He made ledges 9 on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. 10
1 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 11 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 12 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). 13
1 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 14 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” 15
1 Kings 12:16
Context12:16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David, no share in the son of Jesse! 16 Return to your homes, O Israel! 17 Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” 18 So Israel returned to their homes. 19
1 Kings 13:18
Context13:18 The old prophet then said, 20 “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 21 ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 22 But he was lying to him. 23
1 Kings 14:10
Context14:10 So I am ready to bring disaster 24 on the dynasty 25 of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 26 I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed. 27
1 Kings 16:7
Context16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. 28 His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. 29
1 Kings 18:12
Context18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. 30 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 31 That would not be fair, 32 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 33 the Lord from my youth.
1 Kings 18:26
Context18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, 34 and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped 35 around on the altar they had made. 36
1 Kings 18:44
Context18:44 The seventh time the servant 37 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 38 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 39
1 Kings 20:34
Context20:34 Ben Hadad 40 said, “I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets 41 in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.” 42 Ahab then said, “I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you.” 43 So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.
1 Kings 21:2
Context21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, 44 I will pay you silver for it.” 45
1 tn Or “meet.”
2 tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”
3 tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”
4 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
5 tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the
6 tn Heb “five cubits.”
7 tn Heb “six cubits.”
8 tn Heb “seven cubits.”
9 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”
10 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
11 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.”
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
13 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
14 tn Or “delighted in.”
15 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
16 sn We have no portion in David; no share in the son of Jesse. Their point seems to be that they have no familial relationship with David that brings them any benefits or places upon them any obligations. They are being treated like outsiders.
17 tn Heb “to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
18 tn Heb “Now see your house, David.”
19 tn Heb “went to their tents.”
20 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
21 tn Heb “by the word of the
22 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
23 tn Or “deceiving him.”
sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.
24 sn Disaster. There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The word translated “disaster” (רָעָה, ra’ah) is from the same root as the expression “you have sinned” in v. 9 (וַתָּרַע [vattara’], from רָעַע, [ra’a’]). Jeroboam’s sins would receive an appropriate punishment.
25 tn Heb “house.”
26 tn Heb “and I will cut off from Jeroboam those who urinate against a wall (including both those who are) restrained and let free (or “abandoned”) in Israel.” The precise meaning of the idiomatic phrase עָצוּר וְעָזוּב (’atsur vÿ’azuv) is uncertain. For various options see HALOT 871 s.v. עצר 6 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 107. The two terms are usually taken as polar opposites (“slaves and freemen” or “minors and adults”), but Cogan and Tadmor, on the basis of contextual considerations (note the usage with אֶפֶס [’efes], “nothing but”) in Deut 32:36 and 2 Kgs 14:26, argue convincingly that the terms are synonyms, meaning “restrained and abandoned,” and refer to incapable or incapacitated individuals.
27 tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” Manure was sometimes used as fuel (see Ezek 4:12, 15). However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I will sweep away the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away manure it is gone” (cf. ASV, NASB, TEV). Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.
28 tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the
29 tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”
30 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
31 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
32 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
33 tn Heb “has feared the
34 tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”
35 tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).
36 tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew
37 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”
40 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
41 tn Heb “streets,” but this must refer to streets set up with stalls for merchants to sell their goods. See HALOT 299 s.v. חוּץ.
42 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
43 tn Heb “I will send you away with a treaty.” The words “Ahab then said” are supplied in the translation. There is nothing in the Hebrew text to indicate that the speaker has changed from Ben Hadad to Ahab. Some suggest adding “and he said” before “I will send you away.” Others prefer to maintain Ben Hadad as the speaker and change the statement to, “Please send me away with a treaty.”
44 tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”
45 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”
