Discovery Box1 Kings 5:14 
Context5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of 1 the work crews.
1 Kings 6:32
Context6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved 2 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. 3 He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. 4
1 Kings 7:25
Context7:25 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 5
1 Kings 8:9
Context8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 6 It was there that 7 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 8 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 8:36
Context8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 9 you will then teach them the right way to live 10 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 11
1 Kings 8:53
Context8:53 After all, 12 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 13 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 9:7
Context9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land 14 I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 15 and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed 16 among all the nations.
1 Kings 9:9
Context9:9 Others will then answer, 17 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors 18 out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 19 That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.’”
1 Kings 9:25
Context9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 20 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 21
1 Kings 10:7
Context10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 22 Your wisdom and wealth 23 surpass what was reported to me.
1 Kings 10:17
Context10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas 24 of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. 25
1 Kings 11:24
Context11:24 He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. 26 When David tried to kill them, 27 they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.
1 Kings 11:29
Context11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah 28 was wearing a brand new robe,
1 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 29 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 30 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12:11
Context12:11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. 31 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’” 32
1 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, 33 the supervisor of the work crews, 34 out after them, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 35
1 Kings 20:30
Context20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. 36 Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. 37
1 Kings 22:6
Context22:6 So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 38 They said, “Attack! The sovereign one 39 will hand it over to the king.”
1 Kings 22:10
Context22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, 40 dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. 41 All the prophets were prophesying before them.
1 tn Heb “was over.”
2 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
3 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
4 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”
5 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
6 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.
7 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
8 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 34, 40, 48, 53, 57, 58).
9 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
10 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
11 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
12 tn Or “For.”
13 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
14 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
15 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.
16 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
17 tn Heb “and they will say.”
18 tn Heb “fathers.”
19 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
20 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
21 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
22 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
23 tn Heb “good.”
24 sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.
25 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
26 tn Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”
27 tn The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23.
28 tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.
29 tn Heb “stood before.”
30 tn Heb “saying.”
31 tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”
32 tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I will punish you with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture using poisonous insects, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound. Cf. CEV “whips with pieces of sharp metal.”
33 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6.
34 sn The work crews. See the note on this expression in 4:6.
35 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
36 tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”
37 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”
38 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
39 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the
40 tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”
41 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
