1 Raja-raja 1:3

1:3 So they looked through all Israel ¹  for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Raja-raja 1:17

1:17 She replied to him, “My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.’

1 Raja-raja 1:29

1:29 The king swore an oath: “As certainly as the Lord lives (he who has rescued me ²  from every danger),

1 Raja-raja 6:16

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ³  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 10:17

10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas ⁵  of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 22:11

22:11 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.’”

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”

[1:29]  ² tn Or “ransomed my life.”

[6:16]  ³ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ⁴ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[10:17]  ⁵ sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.

[10:17]  ⁶ sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.