Discovery Box1 Kings 2:45 
Context2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered 1 and David’s dynasty 2 will endure permanently before the Lord.”
1 Kings 6:19
Context6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.
1 Kings 8:10
Context8:10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 8:12-13
Context8:12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness. 8:13 O Lord, 3 truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
1 Kings 9:2
Context9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 4
1 Kings 11:14
Context11:14 The Lord brought 5 against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.
1 Kings 13:20
Context13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the Lord spoke through the old prophet 6
1 Kings 14:28
Context14:28 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
1 Kings 15:11
Context15:11 Asa did what the Lord approved 7 like his ancestor 8 David had done.
1 Kings 16:25
Context16:25 Omri did more evil in the sight of 9 the Lord than all who were before him.
1 Kings 16:30
Context16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of 10 the Lord than all who were before him.
1 Kings 17:22
Context17:22 The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.
1 Kings 18:3
Context18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. 11
1 Kings 19:12
Context19:12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. 12
1 Kings 21:3
Context21:3 But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.” 13
1 Kings 21:23
Context21:23 The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall 14 of Jezreel.’
1 Kings 22:5
Context22:5 Then Jehoshaphat added, 15 “First seek an oracle from the Lord.” 16
1 Kings 22:7
Context22:7 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”
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. 17
1 tn Or “blessed.”
2 tn Heb “throne.”
3 tn The words “O
4 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
5 tn Or “raised up.”
6 tn Heb “and the word of the
7 tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the
8 tn Heb “father,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.
9 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
10 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
11 tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the
12 tn Heb “a voice, calm, soft.”
13 tn Heb “Far be it from me, by the
14 tc A few Hebrew
15 tn Heb “and Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel.”
16 tn Heb “the word of the
17 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.
