Discovery Box1 Kings 3:7 
Context3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 1
1 Kings 6:7
Context6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry 2 were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 3 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 4 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 5
1 Kings 14:8
Context14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 6
1 Kings 22:31
Context22:31 Now the king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high-ranking officers; 7 fight only the king of Israel.”
1 tn Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”
2 tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
3 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
4 tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
6 tn Heb “what was right in my eyes.”
7 tn Heb “small or great.”
