Discovery Box1 Kings 10:5-7
Context10:5 the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants, 2 their robes, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he presented in the Lord’s temple, she was amazed. 3 10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight 4 was true! 10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 5 Your wisdom and wealth 6 surpass what was reported to me.
1 Kings 10:2
Context10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem 7 with a great display of pomp, 8 bringing with her camels carrying spices, 9 a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.
1 Kings 9:4-6
Context9:4 You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 10 9:5 Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, 11 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 12
9:6 “But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 13 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 14
1 Kings 9:20-22
Context9:20 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 15 9:21 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. 16 9:22 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; 17 the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. 18
1 Kings 9:1
Context9:1 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, 19
1 Kings 2:9-10
Context2:9 But now 20 don’t treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; 21 make sure he has a bloody death.” 22
2:10 Then David passed away 23 and was buried in the city of David. 24
1 Kings 2:1
Context2:1 When David was close to death, 25 he told 26 Solomon his son:
1 Kings 3:2-5
Context3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, 27 because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 28 3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following 29 the practices 30 of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 31 Solomon would offer up 32 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared 33 to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell 34 me what I should give you.”
[10:5] 1 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
[10:5] 2 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
[10:5] 3 tn Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
[10:6] 4 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
[10:7] 5 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
[10:2] 7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[10:2] 8 tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew term חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV) or to the great wealth she brought with her.
[9:4] 10 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5.
[9:5] 11 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”
[9:5] 12 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
[9:6] 13 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
[9:6] 14 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
[9:20] 15 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”
[9:21] 16 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”
[9:22] 17 sn These work crews. The work crews referred to here must be different than the temporary crews described in 5:13-16.
[9:22] 18 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
[9:1] 19 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”
[2:9] 20 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.
[2:9] 21 tn Heb “what you should do to him.”
[2:9] 22 tn Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”
[2:10] 23 tn Heb “and David lay down with his fathers.”
[2:10] 24 sn The phrase the city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[2:1] 25 tn Heb “and the days of David approached to die.”
[3:2] 27 sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.
[3:2] 28 tn Heb “for the name of the
[3:3] 29 tn Heb “Solomon loved the
[3:3] 30 tn Or “policies, rules.”
[3:4] 31 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
[3:4] 32 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
