1 Kings 15:9

Asa’s Reign over Judah

15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

1 Kings 16:10

16:10 Zimri came in and struck him dead. (This happened in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah.) Zimri replaced Elah as king. ¹ 

1 Kings 6:3

6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet ²  long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet ³  wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

1 Kings 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ⁴  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ⁵ 

1 Kings 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ⁶  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ⁷  as well as the cedar altar. ⁸ 

1 Kings 9:10

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9:10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, ⁹ 

1 Kings 14:20

14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. ¹⁰  His son Nadab replaced him as king.

1 Kings 15:33

Baasha’s Reign over Israel

15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.

1 Kings 16:8

Elah’s Reign over Israel

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16:15

Zimri’s Reign over Israel

16:15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri’s revolt took place while the army was deployed ¹¹  in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹²  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ¹³  as well as 20,000 baths ¹⁴  of pure ¹⁵  olive oil. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ¹⁷  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 9:11

9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre ¹⁸  twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.

1 Kings 16:29

Ahab Promotes Idolatry

16:29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri’s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 20:30

20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ²⁰  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ²¹ 

¹ tn Heb “and he became king in his place.”

¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

² tn Heb “ten cubits.”

¹ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

² tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

² tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

³ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

¹ tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹ tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.

¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

² tn Heb “his house.”

³ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

⁵ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

¹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

¹ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

¹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹ tn Heb “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

² tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”