Discovery Box1 Kings 3:9 
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 1 so he can make judicial decisions for 2 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 3 Otherwise 4 no one is able 5 to make judicial decisions for 6 this great nation of yours.” 7
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 8 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 9 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 10
1 Kings 11:21
Context11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 11 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 12 so I can return to my homeland.”
1 Kings 17:10
Context17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup 13 of water, so I can take a drink.”
1 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
2 tn Heb “to judge.”
3 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
4 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
5 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
6 tn Heb “to judge.”
7 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
8 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
9 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.
10 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
11 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
12 tn Heb “send me away.”
13 tn Heb “a little.”
