1 Kings 6:23
Context6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet 1 high.
1 Kings 6:33
Context6:33 In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars. 2
1 Kings 6:31-32
Context6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. 3 6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved 4 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. 5 He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. 6
1 Kings 5:11
Context5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors 7 of wheat as provision for his royal court, 8 as well as 20,000 baths 9 of pure 10 olive oil. 11
1 Kings 1:39
Context1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil 12 from the tent and poured it on 13 Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”
1 Kings 11:7
Context11:7 Furthermore, 14 on the hill east of Jerusalem 15 Solomon built a high place 16 for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh 17 and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 18
1 Kings 17:12
Context17:12 She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” 19


[6:23] 1 tn Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).
[6:33] 2 tn Heb “and so he did at the entrance of the main hall, doorposts of olive wood, from a fourth.”
[6:31] 3 tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).
[6:32] 4 tn Heb “carved carvings of.”
[6:32] 5 tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).
[6:32] 6 tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”
[5:11] 5 sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
[5:11] 7 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] 9 tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”
[1:39] 6 tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.
[11:7] 8 sn The hill east of Jerusalem refers to the Mount of Olives.
[11:7] 9 sn A high place. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated (see 1 Kgs 3:2).
[11:7] 10 tn Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”
[11:7] 11 tc The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33).
[17:12] 8 tn Heb “Look, I am gathering two sticks and then I will go and make it for me and my son and we will eat it and we will die.”