Discovery Box1 Kings 2:6 
Context2:6 Do to him what you think is appropriate, 1 but don’t let him live long and die a peaceful death. 2
1 Kings 2:13
Context2:13 Haggith’s son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come in peace?” He answered, “Yes.” 3
1 Kings 2:37
Context2:37 If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.” 4
1 Kings 9:4
Context9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 5
1 Kings 11:22
Context11:22 Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?” 6 Hadad replied, 7 “Nothing, but please give me permission to leave.” 8
1 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 9 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 10
1 Kings 21:5
Context21:5 Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”
1 Kings 22:28
Context22:28 Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, 11 all you people.”
1 tn Heb “according to your wisdom.”
2 tn Heb “and do not bring down his grey hair in peace [to] Sheol.”
3 tn Heb “[in] peace.”
4 tn Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”
5 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
6 tn Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”
7 tn Heb “and he said.”
8 sn So Hadad asked Pharaoh… This lengthy description of Hadad’s exile in Egypt explains why Hadad wanted to oppose Solomon and supports the author’s thesis that his hostility to Solomon found its ultimate source in divine providence. Though Hadad enjoyed a comfortable life in Egypt, when the
9 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.
10 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
11 tn Heb “Listen.”
