Discovery Box1 Kings 5:4 
Context5:4 But now the Lord my God has made me secure on all fronts; there is no adversary or dangerous threat.
1 Kings 7:47
Context7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. 1
1 Kings 8:14
Context8:14 Then the king turned around 2 and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. 3
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 They sailed 4 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 5 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 11:16
Context11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army 6 stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. 7
1 Kings 18:29
Context18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, 8 but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. 9
1 Kings 22:7
Context22:7 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”
1 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
2 tn Heb “turned his face.”
3 tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”
4 tn Heb “went.”
5 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
6 tn Heb “and all Israel.”
7 tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”
8 tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”
9 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta include the following words here: “When it was time to offer the sacrifice, Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations: ‘Stand aside for the time being, and I will offer my burnt offering.’ So they stood aside and departed.”
sn In 2 Kgs 4:31 the words “there was no sound and there was no response” are used to describe a dead boy. Similar words are used here to describe the god Baal as dead and therefore unresponsive.
