1 Kings 3:25

3:25 The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

1 Kings 4:22

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed ¹  thirty cors ²  of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

1 Kings 6:33

6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. 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 10:25

10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ⁶ 

1 Kings 10:28

10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt ⁷  and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

1 Kings 12:30

12:30 This caused Israel to sin; ⁸  the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves. ⁹ 

1 Kings 18:6

18:6 They divided up the land between them; Ahab went ¹⁰  one way and Obadiah went the other.

1 Kings 22:36

22:36 As the sun was setting, a cry went through the camp, “Each one should return to his city and to his homeland.”

¹ tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

² tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

¹ tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

¹ 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.”

² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

¹ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

¹ sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.

¹ tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”

² tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “alone” here and again in reference to Obadiah toward the end of the verse.