1 Raja-raja 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil ¹  from the tent and poured it on ²  Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Raja-raja 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ³  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ⁴  as well as 20,000 baths ⁵  of pure ⁶  olive oil. ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 5:18

5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ⁸  along with men from Byblos, ⁹  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ¹⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 6:3

6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet ¹¹  long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet ¹²  wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

1 Raja-raja 6:29

6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, ¹³  he carved ¹⁴  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

1 Raja-raja 6:38

6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul ¹⁵  (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. ¹⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 7:39

7:39 He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

1 Raja-raja 8:5

8:5 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. ¹⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ¹⁸  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Raja-raja 9:24

9:24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the city of David ¹⁹  to the palace Solomon built for her. ²⁰ 

1 Raja-raja 11:27

11:27 This is what prompted him to rebel against the king: ²¹  Solomon built a terrace and he closed up a gap in the wall of the city of his father David. ²² 

1 Raja-raja 21:27

21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.

[1:39]  ¹ tn Heb “the horn of oil.” This has been specified as olive oil in the translation for clarity.

[1:39]  sn A horn filled with oil. An animal’s horn was used as an oil flask in the anointing ceremony.

[1:39]  ² tn Or “anointed.”

[5:11]  ³ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “his house.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

[5:11]  sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

[5:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “builders.”

[5:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

[5:18]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”

[6:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:3]  ¹² tn Heb “ten cubits.”

[6:29]  ¹³ sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.

[6:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “carved engravings of carvings.”

[6:38]  ¹⁵ sn In the month Bul. This would be October-November 959 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[6:38]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he built it in seven years.”

[8:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”

[8:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

[9:24]  ¹⁹ sn The phrase city of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[9:24]  ²⁰ tn Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”

[11:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”

[11:27]  ²² sn The city of his father David. The phrase refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.