Discovery Box1 Kings 2:3 
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
1 Kings 5:5
Context5:5 So I have decided 5 to build a temple to honor the Lord 6 my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ 7
1 Kings 8:20
Context8:20 The Lord has kept the promise he made. 8 I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor 9 of the Lord God of Israel
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, 10 provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’ 11
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 12 in the south. 13 8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 14 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 15 and then went to their homes, happy and content 16 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 17 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” 18
1 Kings 13:6
Context13:6 The king pled with 19 the prophet, 20 “Seek the favor of 21 the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor 22 and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. 23
1 Kings 17:14
Context17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”
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 24 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? 25 If the Lord is the true God, 26 then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.
1 Kings 18:27
Context18:27 At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.” 27
1 Kings 19:10
Context19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 28 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 29 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 30 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 31
1 Kings 19:14
Context19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal 32 to the Lord, the sovereign God, 33 even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, 34 torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.” 35
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 “Look, I am saying.”
6 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
7 tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the
8 tn Heb “his word that he spoke.”
9 tn Heb “name.”
10 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
11 tn Heb “guard their way by walking before me as you have walked before me.”
12 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
13 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
14 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
15 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
16 tn Heb “good of heart.”
17 tn Or “delighted in.”
18 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
19 tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”
20 tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).
21 tn Heb “appease the face of.”
22 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
23 tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”
24 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”
25 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.
26 tn Heb “the God.”
27 sn Elijah’s sarcastic proposals would have been especially offensive and irritating to Baal’s prophets, for they believed Baal was imprisoned in the underworld as death’s captive during this time of drought. Elijah’s apparent ignorance of their theology is probably designed for dramatic effect; indeed the suggestion that Baal is away on a trip or deep in sleep comes precariously close to the truth as viewed by the prophets.
28 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
29 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
30 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
31 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
32 tn Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.
33 tn Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”
34 tn Heb “abandoned your covenant.”
35 tn Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”
