Discovery Box1 Kings 2:45--3:1 
Context2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered 1 and David’s dynasty 2 will endure permanently before the Lord.” 2:46 The king then gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada who went and executed Shimei. 3
So Solomon took firm control of the kingdom. 4
The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom
3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 5 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 6
1 tn Or “blessed.”
2 tn Heb “throne.”
3 tn “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”
4 tn “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”
5 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
