1 Kings 6:3
Context6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet 1 long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet 2 wide, extending out from the front of the temple.
1 Kings 6:24
Context6:24 Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet. 3
1 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:24
Context7:24 Under the rim all the way around it 4 were round ornaments 5 arranged in settings 15 feet long. 6 The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 7
1 Kings 7:27
Context7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet 8 long, six feet 9 wide, and four-and-a-half feet 10 high.
1 Kings 10:20
Context10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. 11
1 Kings 22:48
Context22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 12 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.


[6:3] 1 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
[6:24] 3 tn Heb “The first wing of the [one] cherub was five cubits, and the second wing of the cherub was five cubits, ten cubits from the tips of his wings to the tips of his wings.”
[7:24] 5 tn Heb “The Sea.” The proper noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[7:24] 6 tn Or “gourd-shaped ornaments.”
[7:24] 7 tn Heb “ten cubits surrounding the sea all around.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.
[7:24] 8 tn Heb “the gourd-shaped ornaments were in two rows, cast in its casting.”
[7:27] 7 tn Heb “four cubits.”
[7:27] 8 tn Heb “four cubits.”
[7:27] 9 tn Heb “three cubits.”
[10:20] 9 tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”
[22:48] 11 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.