1 Kings 11:42

11:42 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem ¹  for forty years.

1 Kings 19:8

19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Kings 2:11

2:11 David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem ²  thirty-three years.

1 Kings 6:17

6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. ³ 

1 Kings 15:10

15:10 He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His grandmother ⁵  was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 7:3

7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

1 Kings 7:38

7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. ⁶  Each basin was six feet in diameter; ⁷  there was one basin for each stand.

1 Kings 4:26

4:26 Solomon had 4,000 ⁸  stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

1 Kings 14:21

Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah

14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He ⁹  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, ¹⁰  the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ¹¹  His mother was an Ammonite woman ¹²  named Naamah.

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³ tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”

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⁵ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses the terms “father” and “mother” for grandparents and more remote ancestors.

⁵ tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).

⁶ tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.

⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “40,000,” but this is probably an inflated number (nevertheless it is followed by KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV). Some Greek mss of the OT and the parallel in 2 Chr 9:25 read “4,000” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

⁷ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

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⁹ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.