6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 1 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
10:26 Solomon accumulated 10 chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 11
12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin 12 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
20:15 So Ahab 14 assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. 15
20:29 The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.
1 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
2 tn Heb “he built.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”
5 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
6 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
3 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
4 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
5 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
5 tn Or “gathered.”
6 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
6 tn Heb “he summoned all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, accomplished in war.”
7 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”
9 tn Heb “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
10 tn Though Jehoshaphat requested an oracle from “the