4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.
7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 1 It measured 15 feet 2 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 3 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 4
10:26 Solomon accumulated 8 chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 9
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 10 Jeroboam 11 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 12 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
19:19 Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen; he was near the twelfth pair. Elijah passed by him and threw his robe over him.
1 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
2 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
3 tn Heb “five cubits.”
4 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
1 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
1 tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”
2 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
1 tn Or “gathered.”
2 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
1 tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.