Discovery Box1 Kings 7:45 
Context7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple 1 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 7:48
Context7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, 2
1 Kings 9:13
Context9:13 Hiram asked, 3 “Why did you give me these cities, my friend 4 ?” He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day. 5
1 Kings 9:22-23
Context9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; 6 the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. 7 9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. 8
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 9
1 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me 10 to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 11
1 Kings 15:30
Context15:30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the Lord God of Israel. 12
1 Kings 18:37
Context18:37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God 13 and that you are winning back their allegiance.” 14
1 Kings 21:27
Context21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.
1 Kings 22:11
Context22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”
1 Kings 22:23
Context22:23 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”
1 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
2 tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.
sn This bread was viewed as a perpetual offering to God and was regarded as holy. See Lev 24:5-9.
3 tn Heb “and he said.”
4 tn Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33.
5 tn Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”
6 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.
7 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
8 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
9 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
10 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.
11 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
12 tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the
13 tn Heb “the God.”
14 tn Heb “that you are turning their heart[s] back.”
