Discovery Box1 Kings 3:28 
Context3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected 1 the king, for they realized 2 that he possessed supernatural wisdom 3 to make judicial decisions.
1 Kings 8:8
Context8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. 4 They have remained there to this very day.
1 Kings 8:33
Context8:33 “The time will come when 5 your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 6 because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 7 and pray for your help 8 in this temple,
1 Kings 8:47
Context8:47 When your people 9 come to their senses 10 in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray; 11 we have done evil.’
1 Kings 10:29
Context10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. 12
1 Kings 11:2
Context11:2 They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! 13 If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” 14 But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. 15
1 Kings 11:18
Context11:18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land. 16
1 Kings 11:24
Context11:24 He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. 17 When David tried to kill them, 18 they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.
1 Kings 13:25
Context13:25 Some men came by 19 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 20 They went and reported what they had seen 21 in the city where the old prophet lived.
1 Kings 16:13
Context16:13 This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols. 22
1 Kings 20:6
Context20:6 But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants’ houses. They will carry away all your valuables.” 23
1 Kings 20:27
Context20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks 24 of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.
1 Kings 20:32
Context20:32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, “Your servant 25 Ben Hadad says, ‘Please let me live!’” Ahab 26 replied, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 27
1 Kings 22:17
Context22:17 Micaiah 28 said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”
1 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
2 tn Heb “saw.”
3 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
4 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
5 tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 33-34 actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
7 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
8 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
9 tn Heb “they”; the referent (your people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
11 tn Or “done wrong.”
12 tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”
13 tn Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”
14 tn Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
15 tn Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.
16 tn Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave to him a house and food and he said to him, and a land he gave to him.” Something seems to be accidentally omitted after “and he said to him.”
17 tn Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”
18 tn The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23.
19 tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”
20 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
21 tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
22 tn Heb “angering the
23 tn Heb “all that is desirable to your eyes they will put in their hand and take.”
24 tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.
25 sn Your servant. By referring to Ben Hadad as Ahab’s servant, they are suggesting that Ahab make him a subject in a vassal treaty arrangement.
26 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 sn He is my brother. Ahab’s response indicates that he wants to make a parity treaty and treat Ben Hadad as an equal partner.
28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
