1 Kings 6:2

6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet ¹  long, 30 feet ²  wide, and 45 feet ³  high.

1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade ⁴  75 feet ⁵  long and 45 feet ⁶  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. ⁷ 

1 Kings 7:2

7:2 He named ⁸  it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; ⁹  it was 150 feet ¹⁰  long, 75 feet ¹¹  wide, and 45 feet ¹²  high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Kings 20:1

Ben Hadad Invades Israel

20:1 Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria ¹³  and besieged and attacked it. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 20:15

20:15 So Ahab ¹⁵  assembled the 232 servants of the district governors. After that he assembled all the Israelite army, numbering 7,000. ¹⁶ 

[6:2]  ¹ tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.

[6:2]  ² tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:2]  ³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

[7:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

[7:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “he built.”

[7:2]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[20:1]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[20:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he went up and besieged Samaria and fought against it.”

[20:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “after them he assembled all the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.”