11:3 He had 700 royal wives 3 and 300 concubines; 4 his wives had a powerful influence over him. 5
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.
20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.
20:15 So Ahab 14 assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. 15
7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 26 It measured 15 feet 27 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 28 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 29
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “there were seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital.”
3 tn Heb “wives, princesses.”
4 sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. The usage in the present passage suggests that after the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (cf. also 2 Sam 21:10-14).
5 tn Heb “his wives bent his heart.”
4 sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the
5 tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”
5 tn Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”
6 sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959
7 tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”
7 tn Heb “Now the people were encamped.
8 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
9 tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”
10 tn Heb “five cubits.”
11 tn Heb “six cubits.”
12 tn Heb “seven cubits.”
13 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”
14 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
11 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.”
12 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”
12 tn Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.
13 tn Heb “The first wing of the [one] cherub was five cubits, and the second wing of the cherub was five cubits, ten cubits from the tips of his wings to the tips of his wings.”
14 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
15 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
16 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
17 tn Heb “five cubits.”
18 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”