1 Kings 4:7

4:7 Solomon had twelve district governors appointed throughout Israel who acquired supplies for the king and his palace. Each was responsible for one month in the year.

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ²  as well as 20,000 baths ³  of pure ⁴  olive oil. ⁵ 

1 Kings 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ⁶  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ⁷  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ⁸ 

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ⁹  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

[5:11]  ¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ² tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[6:1]  ¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[9:25]  ¹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[9:25]  ² tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

[18:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”