1 Kings 6:23

6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.

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.

1 Kings 6:31-32

6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. 6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 20,000 baths of pure 10  olive oil. 11 

1 Kings 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 12  from the tent and poured it on 13  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 11:7

11:7 Furthermore, 14  on the hill east of Jerusalem 15  Solomon built a high place 16  for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh 17  and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 18 

1 Kings 17:12

17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” 19 

tn Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).

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

tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

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

tn Heb “his house.”

tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

tn Or “pressed.”

tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

tn Or “anointed.”

tn Heb “then.”

sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).

10 tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”

11 tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).

tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”