Discovery Box1 Kings 3:6 
Context3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated 1 great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served 2 you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. 3 You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 4
1 Kings 4:24
Context4:24 His royal court was so large because 5 he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah 6 to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors. 7
1 Kings 5:3
Context5:3 “You know that my father David was unable to build a temple to honor the Lord 8 his God, for he was busy fighting battles on all fronts while the Lord subdued his enemies. 9
1 Kings 8:56
Context8:56 “The Lord is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure 10 just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled! 11
1 Kings 8:59
Context8:59 May the Lord our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him, 12 so that he might vindicate 13 his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.
1 Kings 11:34
Context11:34 I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.
1 Kings 13:31
Context13:31 After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet 14 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
1 Kings 14:4
Context14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 15 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 16
1 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 He did this 17 because David had done what he approved 18 and had not disregarded any of his commandments 19 his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 16:9
Context16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily 20 at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,
1 Kings 16:11
Context16:11 When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha’s entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends. 21
1 Kings 18:42
Context18:42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 19:13
Context19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden 22 a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
1 Kings 20:33
Context20:33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, “Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab 23 then said, “Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
1 Kings 21:4
Context21:4 So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, 24 “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” 25 He lay down on his bed, pouted, 26 and would not eat.
1 Kings 22:34
Context22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, 27 and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king 28 ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, 29 because I’m wounded.”
1 tn Heb “did.”
2 tn Heb “walked before.”
3 tn Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”
4 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”
5 tn Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.
6 sn Tiphsah. This was located on the Euphrates River.
7 tn Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”
8 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
9 tn Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the
10 tn Heb “he has given a resting place to his people Israel.”
11 tn Heb “not one word from his entire good word he spoke by Moses his servant has fallen.”
12 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the
13 tn Heb “accomplish the justice of.”
14 tn Heb “the man of God.”
15 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
16 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
17 tn The words “he did this” are added for stylistic reasons.
18 tn Heb “what was right in the eyes of the
19 tn Heb “and had not turned aside from all which he commanded him.”
20 tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”
21 tn Heb “and he did not spare any belonging to him who urinate against a wall, [including] his kinsmen redeemers and his friends.”
22 tn Heb “look.”
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “on account of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite spoke to him.”
25 tn Heb “I will not give to you the inheritance of my fathers.”
26 tn Heb “turned away his face.”
27 tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).
28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
29 tn Heb “camp.”
