Discovery Box1 Kings 3:2 
Context3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, 1 because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 2
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. 3
1 Kings 6:18
Context6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. 4
1 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:18
Context7:18 When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. 5
1 Kings 7:20
Context7:20 On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. 6
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. 7
1 Kings 7:35
Context7:35 On top of each stand was a round opening three-quarters of a foot deep; 8 there were also supports and frames on top of the stands.
1 Kings 7:45
Context7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple 9 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 9:20
Context9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 10
1 Kings 9:27
Context9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men. 11
1 Kings 10:20
Context10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. 12
1 Kings 14:24
Context14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes 13 in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations 14 that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
1 Kings 16:33
Context16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he 15 did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 18:28
Context18:28 So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, 16 mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood. 17
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 18 in their quarters. 19
1 Kings 22:12
Context22:12 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:48
Context22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 20 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
1 sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.
2 tn Heb “for the name of the
3 tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.
4 tn Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”
5 tn Heb “he made the pillars, and two rows surrounding one latticework to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and so he did for the second latticework.” The translation supplies “pomegranates” after “two rows,” and understands “pillars,” rather than “pomegranates,” to be the correct reading after “on top of.” The latter change finds support from many Hebrew
6 tn Heb “and the capitals on the two pillars, also above, close beside the bulge which was beside the latticework, two hundred pomegranates in rows around, on the second capital.” The precise meaning of the word translated “bulge” is uncertain.
7 tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.
8 tn Heb “and on top of the stand, a half cubit [in] height, round all around” (the meaning of this description is uncertain).
9 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
10 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
11 tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”
12 tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”
13 tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”
14 tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”
15 tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Or “as was their custom.”
17 tn Heb “until blood poured out on them.”
sn mutilated…covered with blood. This self-mutilation was a mourning rite designed to facilitate Baal’s return from the underworld.
18 tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”
19 tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.
20 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
