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 3:26
Context3:26 The real mother 4 spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. 5 She said, “My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” 6 But the other woman said, “Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”
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. 7 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 8 That would not be fair, 9 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 10 the Lord from my youth.
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 woman whose son was alive.”
5 tn Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”
6 tn The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.
7 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
8 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
9 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
10 tn Heb “has feared the
