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 3:2
Context3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, 4 because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 5
1 Kings 3:17
Context3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
1 Kings 4:7
Context4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:20
Context4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.
1 Kings 5:12
Context5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. 6
1 Kings 7:8
Context7:8 The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. 7 He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. 8
1 Kings 7:17
Context7:17 The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments. 9
1 Kings 7:30
Context7:30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports. Under the basin the supports were fashioned on each side with wreaths. 10
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 11 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 12
1 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 13
1 Kings 9:11
Context9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre 14 twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.
1 Kings 10:13
Context10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. 15 Then she left and returned 16 to her homeland with her attendants.
1 Kings 10:26
Context10:26 Solomon accumulated 17 chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 18
1 Kings 11:4
Context11:4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to 19 other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been. 20
1 Kings 11:6
Context11:6 Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; 21 he did not remain loyal to 22 the Lord, like his father David had.
1 Kings 11:10
Context11:10 and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. 23 But he did not obey 24 the Lord’s command.
1 Kings 11:23
Context11:23 God also brought against Solomon 25 another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.
1 Kings 12:12
Context12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported 26 to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
1 Kings 13:10
Context13:10 So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.
1 Kings 13:12-13
Context13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 27 the road the prophet 28 from Judah had taken. 13:13 He then told his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 29 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 30
1 Kings 14:24
Context14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes 31 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 32 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
1 Kings 14:26
Context14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 15:3
Context15:3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been. 33
1 Kings 15:12
Context15:12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols 34 his ancestors 35 had made.
1 Kings 15:15
Context15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 36
1 Kings 17:16
Context17:16 The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised 37 through Elijah.
1 Kings 18:30-31
Context18:30 Elijah then told all the people, “Approach me.” So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the Lord that had been torn down. 38 18:31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, “Israel will be your new 39 name.” 40
1 Kings 19:1
Context19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings 21:11
Context21:11 The men of the 41 city, the leaders 42 and the nobles who lived there, 43 followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them. 44
1 Kings 21:25-26
Context21:25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed 45 to doing evil in the sight of 46 the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. 47 21:26 He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, 48 just like the Amorites 49 whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)
1 Kings 22:38
Context22:38 They washed off the chariot at the pool of Samaria (this was where the prostitutes bathed); 50 dogs licked his blood, just as the Lord had said would happen. 51
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 sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.
5 tn Heb “for the name of the
6 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
7 tn Heb “and his house where he lived, the other court [i.e., as opposed to the great court], separated from the house belonging to the hall, was like this work [i.e., this style of architecture].”
8 tn Heb “and a house he was making for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch.”
9 tn Heb “there were seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital.”
10 tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.
11 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
13 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
14 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
15 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
16 tn Heb “turned and went.”
17 tn Or “gathered.”
18 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
19 tn Heb “bent his heart after.”
20 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
21 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
22 tn The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”
23 tn Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”
24 tn Or “keep.”
25 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “came.”
27 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”).
28 tn Heb “the man of God.”
29 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
30 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
31 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
32 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
33 tn Heb “his heart was not complete with the
34 tn The word used here, גִלּוּלִים [gillulim], is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אֱלִילִים, ’elilim), “vanities” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).
35 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
36 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the
37 tn Heb “out, according to the word of the
38 sn Torn down. The condition of the altar symbolizes the spiritual state of the people.
39 tn The word “new” is implied but not actually present in the Hebrew text.
40 sn Israel will be your new name. See Gen 32:28; 35:10.
41 tn Heb “his.”
42 tn Heb “elders.”
43 tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”
44 tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”
45 tn Heb “who sold himself.”
46 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
47 tn Heb “like Ahab…whom his wife Jezebel incited.”
48 tn The Hebrew word used here, גִלּוּלִים (gillulim) is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as אֱלִילִים (’elilim, “worthless things”) and הֲבָלִים (havalim, “vanities” or “empty winds”).
49 tn Heb “He acted very abominably by walking after the disgusting idols, according to all which the Amorites had done.”
50 tn Heb “now the prostitutes bathed.”
51 tn Heb “according to the word of the
