1 Kings 5:18

5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹  along with men from Byblos, ²  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ³ 

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ⁴  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ⁵  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁶  floor.

1 Kings 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ⁷  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ⁸ 

1 Kings 6:18

6:18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. ⁹ 

1 Kings 6:21

6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. ¹⁰  He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary ¹¹  with gold.

1 Kings 6:29

6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, ¹²  he carved ¹³  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

1 Kings 6:38

6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul ¹⁴  (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. ¹⁵ 

1 Kings 7:12

7:12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the hall of the palace. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:6

8:6 The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its assigned ¹⁷  place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubs.

1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ¹⁸  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 8:42

8:42 When they hear about your great reputation ¹⁹  and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, ²⁰  they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

1 Kings 16:9

16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily ²¹  at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,

1 Kings 18:3

18:3 So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ²² 

[5:18]  ¹ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ² tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ³ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ⁶ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[6:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ⁸ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[6:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Cedar was inside the temple, carvings of gourds (i.e., gourd-shaped ornaments) and opened flowers; the whole was cedar, no stone was seen.”

[6:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “it.”

[6:29]  ¹⁶ sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.

[6:29]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “carved engravings of carvings.”

[6:38]  ¹⁹ sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[6:38]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

[7:12]  ²² tn Or “the porch of the temple.”

[8:6]  ²⁵ tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:27]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[8:42]  ³¹ tn Heb “your great name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in the previous verse.

[8:42]  ³² tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

[16:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”

[18:3]  ³⁷ tn Heb “now Obadiah greatly feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.