1 Kings 6:14

6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple. ¹ 

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. ²  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ³ 

1 Kings 12:25

Jeroboam Makes Golden Calves

12:25 ⁴ Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

[6:14]  ¹ tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”

[6:16]  ² 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]  ³ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[12:25]  ³ tc The Old Greek translation has here a lengthy section consisting of twenty-three verses that are not found in the MT.