1 Kings 3:17

3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

1 Kings 6:24

6:24 Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet.¹

1 Kings 6:34

6:34 He also made² two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.³

1 Kings 6:38

6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul⁴ (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.⁵

1 Kings 7:17

7:17 The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments.⁶

1 Kings 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet⁷ long, six feet⁸ wide, and four-and-a-half feet⁹ high.

1 Kings 7:30

7:30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports. Under the basin the supports were fashioned on each side with wreaths.¹⁰

1 Kings 10:16-17

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures¹¹ of gold were used for each shield. 10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas¹² of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.¹³

¹tn 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.”

¹tn The words “he also made” are added for stylistic reasons.

²tc Heb “two of the leaves of the first door were folding, and two of the leaves of the second door were folding.” In the second half of the description, the MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this is surely a corruption of צְלָעִים (tsÿla’im, “leaves”) which appears in the first half of the statement.

¹sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

²tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

¹tn Heb “there were seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital.”

¹tn Heb “four cubits.”

²tn Heb “four cubits.”

³tn Heb “three cubits.”

¹tn The precise meaning of this last word, translated “wreaths,” is uncertain.

¹tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

¹sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.

²sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.