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.

1 Kings 9:17

9:17 Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon,

1 Kings 6:9

6:9 He finished building the temple ⁵  and covered it ⁶  with rafters ⁷  and boards made of cedar. ⁸ 

1 Kings 6:36

6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

1 Kings 6:5

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ⁹ 

1 Kings 6:10

6:10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high ¹⁰  and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

1 Kings 15:17

15:17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 6:15

6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters ¹³  of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

1 Kings 7:2

7:2 He named ¹⁴  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ¹⁵  it was 150 feet ¹⁶  long, 75 feet ¹⁷  wide, and 45 feet ¹⁸  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Kings 15:22

15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹⁹  King Asa used the materials to build up ²⁰  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ²¹  from Shemer for two talents ²²  of silver. He launched a construction project there ²³  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

[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.

[6:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”

[6:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house.”

[6:9]  ⁶ tn The word occurs only here; the precise meaning is uncertain.

[6:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “and rows with cedar wood.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.

[15:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[6:1]  ⁸ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[6:15]  ⁹ tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[7:2]  ¹² tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[15:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

[15:22]  ¹² tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”

[16:24]  ¹² map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[16:24]  ¹³ 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.

[16:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”