1 Kings 3:1
Context3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 1 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 2
1 Kings 6:14
Context6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple. 3
1 Kings 6:28
Context6:28 He plated the cherubs with gold.
1 Kings 7:14
Context7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, 4 and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge 5 to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 6 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 7
1 Kings 7:45
Context7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple 8 were made from polished bronze.
1 Kings 7:51
Context7:51 When King Solomon finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he 9 put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and other articles) in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.
1 Kings 9:19
Context9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, 10 and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. 11 He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 12
1 Kings 14:15
Context14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. 13 He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors 14 and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, 15 because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 16
1 Kings 14:26
Context14:26 He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 16:24
Context16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria 17 from Shemer for two talents 18 of silver. He launched a construction project there 19 and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.


[3:1] 1 sn The phrase City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[3:1] 2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[6:14] 3 tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”
[7:14] 5 tn 2 Chr 2:14 (13 HT) says “from the daughters of Dan.”
[7:14] 6 tn Heb “he was filled with the skill, understanding, and knowledge.”
[7:40] 7 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[7:40] 8 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
[7:45] 9 tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
[7:51] 11 tn Heb “Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[9:19] 13 tn Heb “to Solomon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[9:19] 14 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
[9:19] 15 tn Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
[14:15] 15 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the
[14:15] 16 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).
[14:15] 17 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.
[14:15] 18 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the
[16:24] 17 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
[16:24] 18 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 150 pounds of silver.