Discovery Box1 Kings 2:7 
Context2:7 “Treat fairly 1 the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, 2 because they helped me 3 when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.
1 Kings 2:33
Context2:33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the Lord give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, 4 and his dynasty.” 5
1 Kings 8:34
Context8:34 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.
1 Kings 8:42
Context8:42 When they hear about your great reputation 6 and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, 7 they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.
1 Kings 8:52
Context8:52 “May you be attentive 8 to your servant’s and your people Israel’s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you. 9
1 Kings 10:25
Context10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. 10
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 11
1 Kings 13:12
Context13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 12 the road the prophet 13 from Judah had taken.
1 Kings 14:16
Context14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies 14 because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”
1 Kings 16:26
Context16:26 He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; 15 they angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 16
1 Kings 18:37
Context18:37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God 17 and that you are winning back their allegiance.” 18
1 Kings 19:18
Context19:18 I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” 19
1 Kings 20:16
Context20:16 They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily 20 in their quarters. 21
1 tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”
2 tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”
3 tn Heb “drew near to.”
4 tn Heb “house.”
5 tn Heb “his throne.”
6 tn Heb “your great name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in the previous verse.
7 tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”
8 tn Heb “May your eyes be open.”
9 tn Heb “to listen to them in all their calling out to you.”
10 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
11 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
12 tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).
13 tn Heb “the man of God.”
14 tn Heb “and he will give [up] Israel.”
15 tn Heb “walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin which he made Israel sin.”
16 tn Heb “angering the
17 tn Heb “the God.”
18 tn Heb “that you are turning their heart[s] back.”
19 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
20 tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”
21 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
