1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade ¹  75 feet ²  long and 45 feet ³  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. ⁴ 

1 Kings 18:39

18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! ⁵  The Lord is the true God!”

1 Kings 2:15

2:15 He said, “You know that the kingdom ⁶  was mine and all Israel considered me king. ⁷  But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the Lord decided it should be his. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

² tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

⁴ tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

⁵ tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).

⁹ tn Or “kingship.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “set their face to me to be king.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”