1 Kings 7:48

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, ¹ 

1 Kings 14:24

14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes ²  in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations ³  that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.

1 Kings 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. ⁴  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs ⁵  of seed.

¹ tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

² tc The Old Greek translation has “a conspiracy” rather than “male cultic prostitutes.”

³ tn Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

³ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

⁴ tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.