Discovery Box1 Kings 2:38 
Context2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. 1 Your servant will do as you say.” 2 So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time. 3
1 Kings 8:33
Context8:33 “The time will come when 4 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 5 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 6 and pray for your help 7 in this temple,
1 Kings 11:29
Context11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah 8 was wearing a brand new robe,
1 Kings 16:21
Context16:21 At that time the people of Israel were divided in their loyalties. Half the people supported Tibni son of Ginath and wanted to make him king; the other half supported Omri.
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 9 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 19:2
Context19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, 10 “May the gods judge me severely 11 if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” 12
1 Kings 20:6
Context20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” 13
1 Kings 21:7
Context21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! 14 Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. 15 I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”
1 tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”
2 tn Heb “so your servant will do.”
3 tn Heb “many days.”
4 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
6 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
7 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
8 tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.
9 tn Heb “the word of the
10 tn Heb “saying.”
11 tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”
12 tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
13 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”
14 tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”
15 tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”
