1 Kings 4:19

4:19 Geber son of Uri was in charge of the land of Gilead (the territory which had once belonged to King Sihon of the Amorites and to King Og of Bashan). He was sole governor of the area.

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 made ²  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 Bul ⁴  (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 feet ⁷  long, six feet ⁸  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ⁹  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 7:32

7:32 The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet ¹¹  high.

1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ¹²  of gold per year, ¹³ 

1 Kings 10:16-17

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ¹⁴  of gold were used for each shield. 10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas ¹⁵  of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 11:13

11:13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave ¹⁷  your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:32

11:32 He will retain one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 16:23

16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

1 Kings 19:5

19:5 He stretched out ¹⁸  and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger ¹⁹  touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

1 Kings 20:35

A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions

20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” ²⁰  But the man refused to wound him.

¹ 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.”

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

² tc 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.

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

² tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

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

¹ tn Heb “four cubits.”

² tn Heb “four cubits.”

³ tn Heb “three cubits.”

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

¹ tn Heb “a cubit-and-a-half” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

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

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

² sn 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.

¹ tn Heb “give.”

¹ tn Or “lay down.”

² tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”

¹ tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the Lord, ‘Wound me.’”