Discovery Box1 Kings 5:5 
Context5:5 So I have decided 1 to build a temple to honor the Lord 2 my God, as the Lord instructed my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’ 3
1 Kings 8:64
Context8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings. 4
1 Kings 10:9
Context10:9 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 5 you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.” 6
1 Kings 13:2
Context13:2 With the authority of the Lord 7 he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” 8
1 Kings 13:6
Context13:6 The king pled with 9 the prophet, 10 “Seek the favor of 11 the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor 12 and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. 13
1 Kings 14:15
Context14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 14 He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 15 and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 16 because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 17
1 Kings 17:14
Context17:14 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The jar of flour will not be empty and the jug of oil will not run out until the day the Lord makes it rain on the surface of the ground.’”
1 Kings 18:12-13
Context18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. 18 If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 19 That would not be fair, 20 because your servant has been a loyal follower of 21 the Lord from my youth. 18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did 22 when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.
1 Kings 19:4
Context19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 23 and asked the Lord to take his life: 24 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 25
1 Kings 20:13
Context20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? 26 Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 Kings 21:19
Context21:19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood – yes, yours!”’”
1 tn Heb “Look, I am saying.”
2 tn Heb “a house for the name of the
3 tn Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the
4 tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”
5 tn Or “delighted in.”
6 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
7 tn Heb “by the word of the
8 sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.
9 tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”
10 tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).
11 tn Heb “appease the face of.”
12 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
13 tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”
14 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the
15 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).
16 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the
sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
18 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
19 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
20 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
21 tn Heb “has feared the
22 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”
23 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
24 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
25 tn Heb “fathers.”
26 tn Heb “this great horde.”
