Literary Devices in 1 Kings
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Though lots of countries are mentioned—Tyre, Lebanon, Sheba, etc.—in 1st Kings, the action takes place in good ol' Israel, God's promised land. David spent much of his life fighting to secure t...
What's Up With the Title?
1 Kings is only the first half of the book called Melakhim ("Kings") in the Hebrew Bible. Christian translators split that book in 2, so now we have 1 Kings—or, more properly, the First Book of t...
Trivia
The Solomon Islands are, as you might have guessed, named after Solomon. When Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira got there in 1568, he sort of thought he might have discovered the land from which Solomon...
Sex Drugs And Violence Rating
There's plenty of violent death in 1st Kings: a few battles, various political assassinations, Elijah's slaughter of the 850 priests of Baal, and one lion mauling. Nothing too graphic, though. As f...
Allusions
King Solomon's Mines. H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel follows Allan Quatermain (who served as a model for Indiana Jones) on his quest to find the ancient treasures hidden in Solomon's lo...