Discovery Box1 Kings 14:17
Context14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to 1 Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.
1 Kings 17:15
Context17:15 She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family. 2
1 Kings 3:4
Context3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 3 Solomon would offer up 4 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
1 Kings 3:27
Context3:27 The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”
1 Kings 8:1
Context8:1 5 Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem 6 Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). 7
1 Kings 10:13
Context10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. 8 Then she left and returned 9 to her homeland with her attendants.
[14:17] 1 tn Heb “went and entered.”
[17:15] 2 tn Heb “and she ate, she and he and her house [for] days.”
[3:4] 3 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
[3:4] 4 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.
[8:1] 4 tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”
[8:1] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[8:1] 6 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
[10:13] 5 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
