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 2:8
Context2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, 11 who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. 12 He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised 13 him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down 14 with the sword.’
1 Kings 2:26
Context2:26 The king then told Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your property 15 in Anathoth. You deserve to die, 16 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.” 17
1 Kings 2:32
Context2:32 May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; 18 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 19 – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
1 Kings 2:42
Context2:42 the king summoned 20 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 21 that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 22 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 23
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 24 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 25
1 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 26 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 27 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). 28
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, 29 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ 30
1 Kings 8:65-66
Context8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt 31 in the south. 32 8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 33 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 34 and then went to their homes, happy and content 35 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 13:18
Context13:18 The old prophet then said, 36 “I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the Lord’s authority, 37 ‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.’” 38 But he was lying to him. 39
1 Kings 14:5
Context14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. 40 When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”
1 Kings 14:21
Context14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He 41 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, 42 the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 43 His mother was an Ammonite woman 44 named Naamah.
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 45 to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:
1 Kings 16:34
Context16:34 During Ahab’s reign, 46 Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. 47 Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; 48 Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, 49 just as the Lord had warned 50 through Joshua son of Nun. 51
1 Kings 18:10
Context18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them 52 swear an oath that they could not find you.
1 Kings 18:21
Context18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? 53 If the Lord is the true God, 54 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 55 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.” 56 All the people responded, “This will be a fair test.” 57
1 Kings 18:36
Context18:36 When it was time for the evening offering, 58 Elijah the prophet approached the altar 59 and prayed: “O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove 60 today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
1 Kings 19:10
Context19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 61 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 62 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 63 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 64
1 Kings 19:14
Context19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 65 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 66 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 67 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 68
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. 69 But I despise 70 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 71 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
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 Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”
12 tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”
13 tn Or “swore an oath to.”
14 tn Heb “kill you.”
15 tn Or “field.”
16 tn Heb “you are a man of death.”
17 tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”
18 tn Heb “The
19 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.”
20 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
21 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
22 tn Heb “here or there.”
23 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
24 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
25 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
26 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.”
27 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
28 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
29 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
30 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
31 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
32 tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the
33 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
34 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
35 tn Heb “good of heart.”
36 tn Heb “and he said to him.”
37 tn Heb “by the word of the
38 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
39 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.
40 sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the
41 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
42 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
43 tn Heb “the city where the
44 tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.
45 tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”
46 tn Heb “in his days.”
47 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
48 tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”
49 tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”
50 tn Heb “according to the word of the
51 sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.
52 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”
53 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.
54 tn Heb “the God.”
55 tn Elijah now directly addresses the prophets.
56 tn Heb “the God.”
57 tn Heb “The matter [i.e., proposal] is good [i.e., acceptable].”
58 tn Heb “at the offering up of the offering.”
59 tn The words “the altar” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
60 tn Heb “let it be known.”
61 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
62 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
63 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
64 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
65 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
66 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
67 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
68 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
69 tn Heb “to seek the
70 tn Or “hate.”
71 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.
