1 Raja-raja 2:17

2:17 He said, “Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won’t refuse you.” ¹ 

1 Raja-raja 4:29

4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding ²  was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

1 Raja-raja 5:12

5:12 So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ³ 

1 Raja-raja 5:16

5:16 besides 3,300 ⁴  officials who supervised the workers. ⁵ 

1 Raja-raja 9:23

9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ⁷  of gold per year, ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 11:26

11:26 Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s servants, rebelled against ⁹  the king. He was an Ephraimite ¹⁰  from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah.

[2:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”

[4:29]  ² tn Heb “heart,” i.e., mind. (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)

[5:12]  ³ tn Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.

[5:16]  ⁴ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[9:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[10:14]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

[11:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “raised a hand against.”

[11:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם).