Discovery Box1 Kings 2:42 
Context2:42 the king summoned 1 Shimei and said to him, “You will recall 2 that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, 3 know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ 4
1 Kings 13:26
Context13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, 5 he said, “It is the prophet 6 who rebelled against the Lord. 7 The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up 8 and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” 9
1 Kings 16:34
Context16:34 During Ahab’s reign, 10 Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. 11 Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; 12 Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, 13 just as the Lord had warned 14 through Joshua son of Nun. 15
1 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
2 tn Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”
3 tn Heb “here or there.”
4 tn Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”
5 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
6 tn Heb “the man of God.”
7 tn Heb “the mouth of the
8 tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”
9 tn Heb “according to the word of the
10 tn Heb “in his days.”
11 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
12 tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”
13 tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”
14 tn Heb “according to the word of the
15 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.
