1 Kings 2:16

2:16 Now I’d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don’t refuse me.” ¹  She said, “Go ahead and ask.” ² 

1 Kings 6:25

6:25 The second cherub also had a wingspan of 15 feet; it was identical to the first in measurements and shape. ³ 

1 Kings 7:37

7:37 He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ⁴  of gold per year, ⁵ 

1 Kings 2:20

2:20 She said, “I would like to ask you for just one small favor. ⁶  Please don’t refuse me.” ⁷  He said, ⁸  “Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you.”

1 Kings 10:22

10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships ⁹  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ¹⁰  came into port with cargoes of ¹¹  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ¹² 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ¹³  and asked the Lord to take his life: ¹⁴  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

² tn Heb “She said, ‘Speak!’”

³ tn Heb “and the second cherub was ten cubits, the two cherubs had one measurement and one shape.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

⁶ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

⁷ tn Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”

⁸ tn Heb “Do not turn back my face.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the king said to her.”

⁹ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

¹¹ tn Heb “came carrying.”

¹² tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”

¹¹ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

¹² tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

¹³ tn Heb “fathers.”