Discovery Box1 Kings 2:34 
Context2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; 1 he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
1 Kings 4:28
Context4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. 2
1 Kings 8:11
Context8:11 The priests could not carry out their duties 3 because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple. 4
1 Kings 10:24
Context10:24 Everyone 5 in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 6
1 Kings 10:28
Context10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt 7 and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.
1 Kings 11:8
Context11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 8
1 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so well 9 he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. 10
1 Kings 11:35
Context11:35 I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son and give ten tribes to you. 11
1 Kings 13:30
Context13:30 He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they 12 mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”
1 Kings 14:18
Context14:18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted 13 through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
1 Kings 14:20
Context14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. 14 His son Nadab replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:8
Context15:8 Abijah passed away 15 and was buried 16 in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.
1 Kings 15:14
Context15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 17
1 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” 18
1 Kings 22:46
Context22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. 19
1 Kings 22:53
Context22:53 He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, 20 angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done. 21
1 tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”
3 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
4 tn Heb “the house of the
5 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.
6 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
7 sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.
8 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”
9 tn Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”
10 tn Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
11 tn Heb “and I will give it to you, ten tribes.”
12 tn “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31).
13 tn Heb “according to the word of the
14 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
15 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”
16 tn Heb “and they buried him.”
17 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the
18 tn Heb “Do not listen and do not be willing.”
19 tn Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
sn Despite Asa’s opposition to these male cultic prostitutes (see 1 Kgs 15:12) some of them had managed to remain in the land. Jehoshaphat finished what his father had started.
20 tn Heb “he served Baal and bowed down to him.”
21 tn Heb “according to all which his father had done.”
