Discovery Box1 Kings 2:8 
Context2:8 “Note well, you still have to contend with Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, 1 who tried to call down upon me a horrible judgment when I went to Mahanaim. 2 He came down and met me at the Jordan, and I solemnly promised 3 him by the Lord, ‘I will not strike you down 4 with the sword.’
1 Kings 8:66
Context8:66 On the fifteenth day after the festival started, 5 he dismissed the people. They asked God to empower the king 6 and then went to their homes, happy and content 7 because of all the good the Lord had done for his servant David and his people Israel.
1 Kings 12:24
Context12:24 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” 8 They obeyed the Lord and went home as the Lord had ordered them to do. 9
1 Kings 12:33
Context12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 10 Jeroboam 11 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 12 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 Kings 19:11
Context19:11 The Lord 13 said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.”
A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, 14 but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
1 Kings 19:21
Context19:21 Elisha 15 went back and took his pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire that he made by burning the harness and yoke. 16 He gave the people meat and they ate. Then he got up and followed Elijah and became his assistant.
1 Kings 20:9
Context20:9 So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Say this to my master, the king, ‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” 17 So the messengers went back and gave their report.
1 Kings 20:39
Context20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat 18 of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. 19 He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, 20 you will pay with your life or with a talent 21 of silver.’ 22
1 tn Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”
2 tn Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”
3 tn Or “swore an oath to.”
4 tn Heb “kill you.”
5 tn Heb “on the eighth day” (that is, the day after the second seven-day sequence).
6 tn Heb “they blessed the king.”
7 tn Heb “good of heart.”
8 tn Heb “for this thing is from me.”
9 tn Heb “and they heard the word of the
10 tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
14 tn Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”
17 tn Heb “all which you sent to your servant in the beginning I will do, but this thing I am unable to do.”
18 tn Heb “middle.”
19 tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).
20 tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.
21 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver.
22 tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”
