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 6:34

6:34 He also made ²  two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves. ³ 

1 Kings 7:20

7:20 On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. ⁴ 

1 Kings 7:24

7:24 Under the rim all the way around it ⁵  were round ornaments ⁶  arranged in settings 15 feet long. ⁷  The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” ⁸ 

1 Kings 9:10

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9:10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, ⁹ 

1 Kings 2:39

2:39 Three years later two of Shimei’s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, “Look, your servants are in Gath.”

1 Kings 7:15

7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet ¹⁰  high and 18 feet ¹¹  in circumference.

1 Kings 7:25

7:25 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ¹² 

1 Kings 7:42

7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

1 Kings 8:9

8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹³  It was there that ¹⁴  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ¹⁵  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ¹⁶  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 21:13

21:13 The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they dragged him ¹⁷  outside the city and stoned him to death. ¹⁸ 

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

² tn The words “he also made” are added for stylistic reasons.

³ 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.

³ tn Heb “and the capitals on the two pillars, also above, close beside the bulge which was beside the latticework, two hundred pomegranates in rows around, on the second capital.” The precise meaning of the word translated “bulge” is uncertain.

⁴ tn Heb “The Sea.” The proper noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Or “gourd-shaped ornaments.”

⁶ tn Heb “ten cubits surrounding the sea all around.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

⁷ tn Heb “the gourd-shaped ornaments were in two rows, cast in its casting.”

⁵ tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”

⁶ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”

⁷ tn Heb “twelve cubits.”

⁷ tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

⁸ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai.

⁹ tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

⁹ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.

¹⁰ tn Heb “led him.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they stoned him with stones and he died.”