1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ¹  wide, the middle floor nine feet ²  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ³  feet wide. He made ledges ⁴  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ⁵ 

1 Kings 14:15

14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. ⁶  He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors ⁷  and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ⁸  because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. ⁹ 

1 Kings 22:34

22:34 Now an archer shot an arrow at random, ¹⁰  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ¹¹  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ¹²  because I’m wounded.”

¹ tn Heb “five cubits.”

² tn Heb “six cubits.”

³ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

⁴ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

⁵ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

⁶ tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).

⁸ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”

¹¹ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “camp.”