1 Kings 6:31

6:31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided. ¹ 

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ²  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ³  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁴  floor.

1 Kings 14:27

14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ⁵  who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

1 Kings 19:13

19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden ⁶  a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ⁷  of water, so I can take a drink.”

1 Kings 22:10

22:10 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, ⁸  dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. ⁹  All the prophets were prophesying before them.

[6:31]  ¹ tn Heb “the pillar, doorposts, a fifth part” (the precise meaning of this description is uncertain).

[6:8]  ² tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ³ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

[14:27]  ³ tn Heb “runners.”

[19:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “look.”

[17:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “a little.”

[22:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “were sitting, a man on his throne.”

[22:10]  ⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.