1 Kings 18:13

18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did ¹  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade ²  75 feet ³  long and 45 feet ⁴  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. ⁵ 

1 Kings 9:23

9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. ⁶ 

1 Kings 18:4

18:4 When Jezebel was killing ⁷  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

¹ tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”

² tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

³ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

⁴ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

⁵ tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

³ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

⁴ tn Heb “cutting off.”