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 8:36
Context8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 2 you will then teach them the right way to live 3 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 4
1 Kings 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 5 against the altar in Bethel 6 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 7 will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 17:1
Context17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), 8 there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.” 9
1 Kings 20:23
Context20:23 Now the advisers 10 of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.
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 tn Heb “house.”
2 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
3 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
4 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
5 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
6 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
7 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
8 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
9 tn Heb “except at the command of my word.”
10 tn Or “servants.”
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.”
