Discovery Box1 Kings 5:6 
Context5:6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
1 Kings 18:10
Context18:10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them 1 swear an oath that they could not find you.
1 Kings 18:21
Context18:21 Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? 2 If the Lord is the true God, 3 then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.
1 Kings 20:9
Context20:9 So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, “Say this to my master, the king, ‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” 4 So the messengers went back and gave their report.
1 Kings 22:8
Context22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 5 But I despise 6 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 7 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”
1 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”
2 tn Heb “How long are you going to limp around on two crutches?” (see HALOT 762 s.v. סְעִפִּים). In context this idiomatic expression refers to indecision rather than physical disability.
3 tn Heb “the God.”
4 tn Heb “all which you sent to your servant in the beginning I will do, but this thing I am unable to do.”
5 tn Heb “to seek the
6 tn Or “hate.”
7 tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.
