Discovery Box1 Kings 1:48
Context1:48 and said 1 this: ‘The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because 2 today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.’” 3
1 Kings 3:5
Context3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 4 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 5 me what I should give you.”
1 Kings 6:18
Context6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. 6
1 Kings 9:12
Context9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 7
1 Kings 11:9
Context11:9 The Lord was angry with Solomon because he had shifted his allegiance 8 away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him on two occasions 9
1 Kings 11:28
Context11:28 Jeroboam was a talented man; 10 when Solomon saw that the young man was an accomplished worker, he made him the leader of the work crew from the tribe 11 of Joseph.
1 Kings 13:12
Context13:12 Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him 12 the road the prophet 13 from Judah had taken.
1 Kings 14:4
Context14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. 14 Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 15
1 Kings 16:18
Context16:18 When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames. 16
1 Kings 17:23
Context17:23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, “See, your son is alive!”
1 Kings 18:39
Context18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 17 The Lord is the true God!”
1 Kings 19:3
Context19:3 Elijah was afraid, 18 so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,
1 Kings 22:19
Context22:19 Micaiah 19 said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.
1 Kings 22:32
Context22:32 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel.” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
[1:48] 1 tn The Hebrew text reads, “and the king said.”
[1:48] 2 tn Or “Blessed be the
[1:48] 3 tn Heb “and my eyes are seeing.”
[3:5] 4 tn Or “revealed himself.”
[6:18] 7 tn Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”
[9:12] 10 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
[11:9] 13 tn Heb “bent his heart.”
[11:9] 14 sn These two occasions are mentioned in 1 Kgs 3:5 and 9:2.
[11:28] 16 tn Heb “man of strength.”
[13:12] 19 tn The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” (וַיִּרְאוּ [vayyir’u], Qal from רָאָה [ra’ah]). In this case the verbal construction (vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix (וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [vayyar’uhu], “and they showed him”).
[13:12] 20 tn Heb “the man of God.”
[14:4] 22 tn Heb “and the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and entered the house of Ahijah.”
[14:4] 23 tn Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”
[16:18] 25 tn Heb “and he burned the house of the king over him with fire and he died.”
[18:39] 28 tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).
[19:3] 31 tc The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew
[22:19] 34 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
