Discovery Box1 Kings 2:43 
Context2:43 Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” 1
1 Kings 3:25
Context3:25 The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”
1 Kings 8:14
Context8:14 Then the king turned around 2 and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. 3
1 Kings 8:40
Context8:40 Then they will obey 4 you throughout their lifetimes as 5 they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:60
Context8:60 Then 6 all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God. 7
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 They sailed 8 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 9 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
1 Kings 14:20
Context14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. 10 His son Nadab replaced him as king.
1 Kings 20:21
Context20:21 Then the king of Israel marched out and struck down the horses and chariots; he thoroughly defeated 11 Syria.
1 Kings 22:49
Context22:49 Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,” 12 but Jehoshaphat refused.
1 tn Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the
2 tn Heb “turned his face.”
3 tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”
4 tn Heb “fear.”
5 tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”
6 tn Heb “so that.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “went.”
9 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
10 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
11 tn Heb “struck down Aram with a great striking down.”
12 tn Heb “Let my servants go with your servants in the fleet.”
