Discovery Box1 Kings 2:26 
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 1 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 2 but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign Lord before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times.” 3
1 Kings 2:32
Context2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; 4 behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he 5 – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
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 6 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 7
1 Kings 5:5
Context5:5 So I have decided 8 to build a temple to honor the Lord 9 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.’ 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 8:20
Context8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. 14 I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor 15 of the Lord God of Israel
1 Kings 8:25
Context8:25 Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, 16 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ 17
1 Kings 8:66
Context8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 18 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 19 and then went to their homes, happy and content 20 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 11:33
Context11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him 21 because they have 22 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 23 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 24
1 tn Or “field.”
2 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
3 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
4 tn Heb “The
5 tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”
6 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
8 tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”
9 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
10 tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the
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 Heb “his word that he spoke.”
15 tn Heb “name.”
16 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
17 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
18 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
19 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
20 tn Heb “good of heart.”
21 tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
22 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”
23 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”
24 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”
