Discovery Box1 Kings 2:3-4
Context2:3 Do the job the Lord your God has assigned you 1 by following his instructions 2 and obeying 3 his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish, 4 2:4 and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 5 ‘If your descendants watch their step 6 and live faithfully in my presence 7 with all their heart and being, 8 then,’ he promised, 9 ‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’ 10
1 Kings 8:36
Context8:36 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 11 you will then teach them the right way to live 12 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 13
1 Kings 8:39
Context8:39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, 14 and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives. 15 (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 16
1 Kings 8:48
Context8:48 When they return to you with all their heart and being 17 in the land where they are held prisoner, 18 and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 19
1 Kings 11:29
Context11:29 At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah 20 was wearing a brand new robe,
1 Kings 11:33
Context11:33 I am taking the kingdom from him 21 because they have 22 abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions 23 by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did. 24
1 Kings 13:17
Context13:17 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 25 ‘Do not eat or drink 26 there; do not go back the way you came.’”
1 Kings 13:25-26
Context13:25 Some men came by 27 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 28 They went and reported what they had seen 29 in the city where the old prophet lived. 13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, 30 he said, “It is the prophet 31 who rebelled against the Lord. 32 The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up 33 and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” 34
1 Kings 13:28
Context13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; 35 the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.
1 Kings 13:33
Context13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 36 he continued to appoint common people 37 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 38
1 Kings 16:2
Context16:2 “I raised you up 39 from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps 40 and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry. 41
1 Kings 18:27
Context18:27 At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.” 42
1 Kings 19:4
Context19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 43 and asked the Lord to take his life: 44 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 45
1 Kings 22:43
Context22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 46 (22:44) 47 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
[2:3] 1 tn Heb “keep the charge of the
[2:3] 2 tn Heb “by walking in his ways.”
[2:3] 4 tn Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”
[2:4] 5 tn Heb “then the
[2:4] 6 tn Heb “guard their way.”
[2:4] 7 tn Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”
[2:4] 10 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”
[8:36] 9 tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense.
[8:36] 10 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
[8:36] 11 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
[8:39] 13 tn The words “their sin” are added for clarification.
[8:39] 14 tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 37-39a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.
[8:39] 15 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
[8:48] 18 tn Heb “in the land of their enemies.”
[8:48] 19 tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.
[11:29] 21 tn The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.
[11:33] 25 tn The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[11:33] 26 tc This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”
[11:33] 27 tn Heb “walked in my ways.”
[11:33] 28 tn Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”
[13:17] 29 tn Heb “for a word to me by the word of the
[13:17] 30 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
[13:25] 33 tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”
[13:25] 34 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[13:25] 35 tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[13:26] 37 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”
[13:26] 38 tn Heb “the man of God.”
[13:26] 39 tn Heb “the mouth of the
[13:26] 40 tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”
[13:26] 41 tn Heb “according to the word of the
[13:28] 41 tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[13:33] 45 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
[13:33] 46 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
[13:33] 47 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”
[16:2] 49 tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.
[16:2] 50 tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”
[16:2] 51 tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”
[18:27] 53 sn Elijah’s sarcastic proposals would have been especially offensive and irritating to Baal’s prophets, for they believed Baal was imprisoned in the underworld as death’s captive during this time of drought. Elijah’s apparent ignorance of their theology is probably designed for dramatic effect; indeed the suggestion that Baal is away on a trip or deep in sleep comes precariously close to the truth as viewed by the prophets.
[19:4] 57 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
[19:4] 58 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
[22:43] 61 tn Heb “he walked in all the way of Asa his father and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
[22:43] 62 sn Beginning with 22:43b, the verse numbers through 22:53 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), because 22:43b in the English Bible = 22:44 in the Hebrew text. The remaining verses in the chapter differ by one, with 22:44-53 ET = 22:45-54 HT.
