Discovery Box1 Kings 2:20 
Context2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. 1 Please don’t refuse me.” 2 He said, 3 “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”
1 Kings 7:12
Context7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. 4
1 Kings 8:23
Context8:23 He prayed: 5 “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty 6 to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 7
1 Kings 14:8
Context14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 8
1 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 9 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.” 10
1 Kings 20:25
Context20:25 Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. 11 Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them.” He approved their plan and did as they advised. 12
1 Kings 20:27
Context20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks 13 of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.
1 Kings 22:17
Context22:17 Micaiah 14 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”
1 Kings 22:52
Context22:52 He did evil in the sight of 15 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 16 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 17
1 tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”
2 tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”
3 tn Heb “and the king said to her.”
4 tn Or “the porch of the temple.”
5 tn Heb “said.”
6 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys.
7 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”
8 tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”
9 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
10 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
11 tn Heb “And you, you muster an army like the one that fell from you, horse like horse and chariot like chariot.”
12 tn Heb “he listened to their voice and did so.”
13 tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
16 tn Or “way.”
17 tn Heb “and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who made Israel sin.”
