1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ¹  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ²  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ³  floor.

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ⁴  wide, the middle floor nine feet ⁵  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ⁶  feet wide. He made ledges ⁷  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ⁸ 

1 Kings 3:20

3:20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

1 Kings 8:64

8:64 That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings. ⁹ 

1 Kings 6:27

6:27 He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple. ¹⁰  Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub’s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub’s wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub’s other wing touched the second cherub’s other wing in the middle of the room. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 6:19

6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

1 Kings 8:51

8:51 After all, ¹²  they are your people and your special possession ¹³  whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 7:33

7:33 The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their crossbars, rims, spokes, and hubs were made of cast metal.

1 Kings 18:29

18:29 Throughout the afternoon they were in an ecstatic frenzy, ¹⁵  but there was no sound, no answer, and no response. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 20:16

20:16 They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily ¹⁷  in their quarters. ¹⁸ 

1 Kings 7:25

7:25 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ¹⁹ 

1 Kings 18:26-27

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ²⁰  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ²¹  around on the altar they had made. ²²  18:27 At noon Elijah mocked them, “Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened.” ²³ 

[6:8]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

[6:8]  ² tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

[6:8]  ³ 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”).

[6:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

[8:64]  ⁷ tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.”

[6:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the midst of the inner house,” i.e., in the inner sanctuary.

[6:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and their wings were in the middle of the room, touching wing to wing.”

[8:51]  ¹³ tn Or “for.”

[8:51]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “inheritance.”

[8:51]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term כּוּר (kur, “furnace,” cf. Akkadian ku„ru) is a metaphor for the intense heat of purification. A כּוּר was not a source of heat but a crucible (“iron-smelting furnace”) in which precious metals were melted down and their impurities burned away (see I. Cornelius, NIDOTTE 2:618-19). Thus Egypt served not as a place of punishment for the Israelites, but as a place of refinement to bring Israel to a place of submission to divine sovereignty.

[18:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “when noon passed they prophesied until the offering up of the offering.”

[18:29]  ¹⁷ tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta include the following words here: “When it was time to offer the sacrifice, Elijah the Tishbite spoke to the prophets of the abominations: ‘Stand aside for the time being, and I will offer my burnt offering.’ So they stood aside and departed.”

[20:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “drinking and drunken.”

[20:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in the temporary shelters.” This is probably referring to tents.

[7:25]  ²² tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

[18:26]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ²⁶ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ²⁷ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[18:27]  ²⁸ sn Elijah’s sarcastic proposals would have been especially offensive and irritating to Baal’s prophets, for they believed Baal was imprisoned in the underworld as death’s captive during this time of drought. Elijah’s apparent ignorance of their theology is probably designed for dramatic effect; indeed the suggestion that Baal is away on a trip or deep in sleep comes precariously close to the truth as viewed by the prophets.