Discovery Box1 Kings 2:24 
Context2:24 Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty 1 for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”
1 Kings 2:31
Context2:31 The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family 2 the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 3
1 Kings 3:6-7
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 4 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 5 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 6 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 7 3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 8
1 Kings 5:1
Context5:1 (5:15) 9 King Hiram of Tyre 10 sent messengers 11 to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.)
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 12 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 13
1 Kings 6:12
Context6:12 “As for this temple you are building, if you follow 14 my rules, observe 15 my regulations, and obey all my commandments, 16 I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. 17
1 Kings 7:51
Context7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he 18 put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 9:5
Context9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 19 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 20
1 Kings 11:12
Context11:12 However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.
1 Kings 11:27
Context11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: 21 Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. 22
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 23 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 24 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 13:11
Context13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 25 When his sons came home, they told their father 26 everything the prophet 27 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 28
1 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 Elijah 29 replied, “I have not brought disaster 30 on Israel. But you and your father’s dynasty have, by abandoning the Lord’s commandments and following the Baals.
1 Kings 19:20
Context19:20 He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you.” Elijah 31 said to him, “Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?”
1 Kings 22:43
Context22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 32 (22:44) 33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
1 Kings 22:52
Context22:52 He did evil in the sight of 34 the Lord and followed in the footsteps 35 of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin. 36
1 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn Heb “house.”
3 tn Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”
4 tn Heb “did.”
5 tn Heb “walked before.”
6 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
7 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
8 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
9 sn The verse numbers in the English Bible differ from those in the Hebrew text (BHS) here; 5:1-18 in the English Bible corresponds to 5:15-32 in the Hebrew text. See the note at 4:21.
10 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
11 tn Heb “his servants.”
12 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
13 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
14 tn Heb “walk in.”
15 tn Heb “do.”
16 tn Heb “and keep all my commandments by walking in them.”
17 tn Heb “I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father.”
18 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
19 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
20 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
21 tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”
22 sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
23 tn Heb “stood before.”
24 tn Heb “saying.”
25 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
26 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.
27 tn Heb “the man of God.”
28 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.”
29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 tn Or “trouble.”
31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
33 sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.
34 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
35 tn Or “way.”
36 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.”
