Discovery Box1 Kings 3:15 
Context3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. 1 He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, 2 and held a feast for all his servants.
1 Kings 3:22
Context3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. 3
1 Kings 8:31
Context8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. 4
1 Kings 8:54
Context8:54 When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky. 5
1 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 6 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 7
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 8 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 18:19
Context18:19 Now send out messengers 9 and assemble all Israel before me at Mount Carmel, as well as the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah whom Jezebel supports. 10
1 Kings 21:13
Context21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him 11 outside the city and stoned him to death. 12
1 Kings 22:10
Context22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 13 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 14 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 Kings 22:15
Context22:15 When he came before the king, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.” 15
1 tn Heb “and look, a dream.”
2 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
3 tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”
4 tn Heb “and forgive the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.” In the Hebrew text the words “and forgive” conclude v. 30, but the accusative sign at the beginning of v. 31 suggests the verb actually goes with what follows in v. 31. The parallel text in 2 Chr 6:22 begins with “and if,” rather than the accusative sign. In this case “forgive” must be taken with what precedes, and v. 31 must be taken as the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, with v. 32 being the apodosis (“then” clause) that completes the sentence.
sn Be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false. At first it appears that Solomon is asking God to forgive the guilty party. But in v. 32 Solomon asks the
5 tn Or “toward heaven.”
6 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
7 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
8 tn Heb “the word of the
9 tn The word “messengers” is supplied in the translation both here and in v. 20 for clarification.
10 tn Heb “who eat at the table of Jezebel.”
11 tn Heb “led him.”
12 tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”
13 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
14 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
15 sn “Attack! You will succeed; the
