1 Kings 12:12

12:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported¹ to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

1 Kings 22:2

22:2 In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit² the king of Israel.

1 Kings 3:18

3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.³

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom⁴ level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up⁵ to the middle floor and then on up to the third⁶ floor.

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet⁷ wide, the middle floor nine feet⁸ wide, and the third floor ten and a half⁹ feet wide. He made ledges¹⁰ on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.¹¹

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah,¹² “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

¹tn Heb “came.”

²tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³sn There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child belonged to which mother.

⁴tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

⁵tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

⁶tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

⁵tn Heb “five cubits.”

⁶tn Heb “six cubits.”

⁷tn Heb “seven cubits.”

⁸tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

⁹tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

⁶tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”