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 8:64
Context8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings. 4
1 Kings 8:66
Context8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 5 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 6 and then went to their homes, happy and content 7 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 8 because they have 9 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 10 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 11
1 Kings 14:15
Context14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 12 He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 13 and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 14 because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 15
1 Kings 16:7
Context16:7 The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. 16 His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s. 17
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. 18 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 19 That would not be fair, 20 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 21 the Lord from my youth.
1 Kings 20:28
Context20:28 The prophet 22 visited the king of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because the Syrians said, “The Lord is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys,” I will hand over to you this entire huge army. 23 Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 Kings 22:8
Context22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 24 But I despise 25 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 26 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
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 “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”
5 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
6 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
7 tn Heb “good of heart.”
8 tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”
10 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”
11 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”
12 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the
13 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).
14 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the
sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
16 tn Heb “and also through Jehu son of Hanani the word of the
17 tn Heb “angering him by the work of his hands, so that he was like the house of Jeroboam, and because of how he struck it down.”
18 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
19 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
20 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
21 tn Heb “has feared the
22 tn Heb “the man of God.”
23 tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”
24 tn Heb “to seek the
25 tn Or “hate.”
26 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.
