1 Kings 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ¹  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ²  in the month Ethanim ³  (the seventh month).

1 Kings 1:6

1:6 (Now his father had never corrected ⁴  him ⁵  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ⁶ )

1 Kings 7:5

7:5 All of the entrances ⁷  were rectangular in shape ⁸  and they were arranged in sets of three. ⁹ 

1 Kings 1:32-35

1:32 King David said, “Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, ¹⁰  and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king, 1:33 and he ¹¹  told them, “Take your master’s ¹²  servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon. ¹³  1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet will anoint ¹⁴  him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’ 1:35 Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed ¹⁵  that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

1 Kings 1:24

1:24 Nathan said, “My master, O king, did you announce, ‘Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne’?

Isaiah 40:16

40:16 Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; ¹⁶ 

its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings. ¹⁷ 

Micah 6:6-7

6:6 With what should I ¹⁸  enter the Lord’s presence?

With what ¹⁹  should I bow before the sovereign God? ²⁰ 

Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings,

with year-old calves?

6:7 Will the Lord accept a thousand rams,

or ten thousand streams of olive oil?

Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion,

my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin? ²¹ 

[8:63]  ¹ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[8:2]  ² sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ³ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[1:6]  ⁴ tn Or “disciplined.”

[1:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “did not correct him from his days.” The phrase “from his days” means “from his earliest days,” or “ever in his life.” See GKC 382 §119.w, n. 2.

[1:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and she gave birth to him after Absalom.” This does not imply they had the same mother; Absalom’s mother was Maacah, not Haggith (2 Sam 3:4).

[7:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “all of the doors and doorposts.”

[7:5]  ⁸ sn Rectangular in shape. That is, rather than arched.

[7:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “and all the entrances and the doorposts [had] four frames, and in front of opening to opening three times” (the precise meaning of the description is uncertain).

[1:32]  ¹⁰ sn Summon…Nathan. Nathan must have left the room when Bathsheba reentered.

[1:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the king.”

[1:33]  ¹² tn The plural form is used in the Hebrew text to indicate honor and authority.

[1:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “mount Solomon my son on the mule that belongs to me and take him down to Gihon.”

[1:34]  ¹⁴ tn Or “designate” (i.e., by anointing with oil).

[1:35]  ¹⁵ tn Or “commanded.”

[40:16]  ¹⁶ tn The words “for a sacrifice” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[40:16]  ¹⁷ sn The point is that not even the Lebanon forest could supply enough wood and animals for an adequate sacrifice to the Lord.

[6:6]  ¹⁸ sn With what should I enter the Lord’s presence? The prophet speaks again, playing the role of an inquisitive worshiper who wants to know what God really desires from his followers.

[6:6]  ¹⁹ tn The words “with what” do double duty in the parallelism and are supplied in the second line of the translation for clarification.

[6:6]  ²⁰ tn Or “the exalted God.”

[6:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually refers to the whole person; here “the sin of my soul” = “my sin.”