1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ¹  wide, the middle floor nine feet ²  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ³  feet wide. He made ledges ⁴  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ⁵ 

1 Kings 18:1

Elijah Meets the King’s Servant

18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, ⁶  “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”

[6:6]  ¹ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ² tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ³ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁴ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

[18:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Elijah.”