1 Kings 6:23

6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet ¹  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. ² 

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. ³  6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved ⁴  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. ⁵  He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. ⁶ 

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ⁷  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁸  as well as 20,000 baths ⁹  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 

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

² tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”

³ tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

⁴ tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁵ tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

⁶ tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

⁵ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

⁶ tn Heb “his house.”

⁷ 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.”

⁸ tn Or “pressed.”

⁹ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

⁶ tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Or “anointed.”

⁷ tn Heb “then.”

⁸ sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.

⁹ 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).

⁸ 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.”