Discovery Box1 Kings 2:3-4 
Context2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 4 2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 5 ‘If your descendants watch their step 6 and live faithfully in my presence 7 with all their heart and being, 8 then,’ he promised, 9 ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 10
1 Kings 2:19
Context2:19 So Bathsheba visited King Solomon to speak to him on Adonijah’s behalf. The king got up to greet 11 her, bowed to her, and then sat on his throne. He ordered a throne to be brought for the king’s mother, 12 and she sat at his right hand.
1 Kings 2:26
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 13 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 14 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.” 15
1 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 16 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 17 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). 18
1 Kings 8:66
Context8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 19 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 20 and then went to their homes, happy and content 21 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 11:38
Context11:38 You must obey 22 all I command you to do, follow my instructions, 23 do what I approve, 24 and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; 25 I will give you Israel.
1 Kings 12:28
Context12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, 26 he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, 27 “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 13:18
Context13:18 The old prophet then said, 28 “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 29 ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 30 But he was lying to him. 31
1 Kings 15:18
Context15:18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it 32 to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:
1 Kings 18:21
Context18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? 33 If the Lord is the true God, 34 then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.
1 Kings 18:24
Context18:24 Then you 35 will invoke the name of your god, and I will invoke the name of the Lord. The god who responds with fire will demonstrate that he is the true God.” 36 All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” 37
1 Kings 18:44
Context18:44 The seventh time the servant 38 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 39 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 40
1 Kings 19:21
Context19:21 Elisha 41 went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. 42 He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.
1 Kings 20:13
Context20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? 43 Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 Kings 20:28
Context20:28 The prophet 44 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. 45 Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 Kings 20:39
Context20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat 46 of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. 47 He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, 48 you will pay with your life or with a talent 49 of silver.’ 50
1 Kings 21:19
Context21:19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’”
1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
2 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
3 tn Or “keeping.”
4 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
5 tn Heb “then the
6 tn Heb “guard their way.”
7 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”
8 tn Or “soul.”
9 tn Heb “saying.”
10 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
11 tn Or “meet.”
12 tn Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”
13 tn Or “field.”
14 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
15 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
16 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.”
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 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
19 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
20 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
21 tn Heb “good of heart.”
22 tn Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.
23 tn Heb “walk in my ways.”
24 tn Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”
25 tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”
26 tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
27 tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.
28 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
29 tn Heb “by the word of the
30 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
31 tn Or “deceiving him.”
sn He was lying to him. The motives and actions of the old prophet are difficult to understand. The old man’s response to the prophet’s death (see vv. 26-32) suggests he did not trick him with malicious intent. The old prophet probably wanted the honor of entertaining such a celebrity, or perhaps simply desired some social interaction with a fellow prophet.
32 tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”
33 tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.
34 tn Heb “the God.”
35 tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.
36 tn Heb “the God.”
37 tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”
41 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”
43 tn Heb “this great horde.”
44 tn Heb “the man of God.”
45 tn Heb “I will place all this great horde in your hand.”
46 tn Heb “middle.”
47 tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).
48 tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.
49 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.
50 tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”
