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 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 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 “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 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
