6:37 In the month Ziv 1 of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign 2 the foundation was laid for the Lord’s temple.
14:25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
10:14 Solomon received 666 talents 4 of gold per year, 5
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.
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 12 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.
9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings 13 on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. 14
18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 15 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 sn In the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
2 tn The words “of Solomon’s reign” are added for clarification. See v. 1.
3 tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 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 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”
6 tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”
7 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
9 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
10 tn Heb “his house.”
11 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.”
12 tn Or “pressed.”
13 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
11 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
13 tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”
14 tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”
15 tn Heb “the word of the