Discovery Box1 Kings 2:22 
Context2:22 King Solomon answered his mother, “Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? 1 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 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 2 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 3
1 Kings 5:9
Context5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. 4 There I will separate the logs 5 and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” 6
1 Kings 12:28
Context12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, 7 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 8 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 16:34
Context16:34 During Ahab’s reign, 9 Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. 10 Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; 11 Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, 12 just as the Lord had warned 13 through Joshua son of Nun. 14
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. 15 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 16 That would not be fair, 17 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 18 the Lord from my youth.
1 Kings 19:21
Context19:21 Elisha 19 went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. 20 He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.
1 Kings 20:33
Context20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab 21 then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
1 Kings 21:13
Context21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him 22 outside the city and stoned him to death. 23
1 tn Heb “for Adonijah.”
2 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.
5 tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.
6 tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”
7 tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.
9 tn Heb “in his days.”
10 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
11 tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”
12 tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”
13 tn Heb “according to the word of the
14 sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.
15 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
16 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
17 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
18 tn Heb “has feared the
19 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “led him.”
23 tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”
