Discovery Box1 Kings 4:20 
Context4:20 The people of Judah and Israel were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore; they had plenty to eat and drink and were happy.
1 Kings 13:1
Context13:1 Just then 1 a prophet 2 from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, 3 as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.
1 Kings 13:12
Context13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 4 the road the prophet 5 from Judah had taken.
1 Kings 13:14
Context13:14 and took off after the prophet, 6 whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet 7 from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”
1 Kings 14:22
Context14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of 8 the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 9
1 Kings 14:29
Context14:29 The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the
Kings of Judah. 10
1 Kings 15:25
Context15:25 In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Jeroboam’s son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.
1 Kings 16:10
Context16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. 11
1 Kings 16:23
Context16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.
1 Kings 19:3
Context19:3 Elijah was afraid, 12 so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,
1 Kings 22:41
Context22:41 In the fourth year of King Ahab’s reign over Israel, Asa’s son Jehoshaphat became king over Judah.
1 tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.
2 tn Heb “the man of God.”
3 tn Heb “came by the word of the
4 tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).
5 tn Heb “the man of God.”
6 tn Heb “the man of God.”
7 tn Heb “the man of God.”
8 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
9 tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”
10 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Rehoboam, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”
11 tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”
12 tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew
