Discovery Box1 Kings 4:21 
Context4:21 (5:1) 1 Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River 2 to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime. 3
1 Kings 6:1
Context6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 4 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 5 It was there that 6 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:21
Context8:21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 7 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8:53
Context8:53 After all, 8 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 9 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 10 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 11 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 12 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 9:16
Context9:16 (Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)
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. 13
1 Kings 11:21
Context11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away 14 and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave 15 so I can return to my homeland.”
1 sn Beginning with 4:21, the verse numbers through 5:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:21 ET = 5:1 HT, 4:22 ET = 5:2 HT, etc., through 5:18 ET = 5:32 HT. Beginning with 6:1 the numbering of verses in the English Bible and the Hebrew text is again the same.
2 tn Heb “the River” (also in v. 24). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.
3 tn Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”
4 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
5 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
6 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
8 tn Or “For.”
9 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
10 tn Heb “and they will say.”
11 tn Heb “fathers.”
12 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
13 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.”
14 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
15 tn Heb “send me away.”
