1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. ¹  They have remained there to this very day.

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ²  in the month Ethanim ³  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 5:9

5:9 My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. ⁴  There I will separate the logs ⁵  and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court.” ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”

² sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

³ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

⁴ tn Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.

⁵ tn Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.

⁶ tn Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”