1 Tawarikh 11:23

11:23 He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet ¹  tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver’s loom; Benaiah attacked ²  him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

1 Tawarikh 17:17

17:17 And you did not stop there, O God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. ³  You have revealed to me what men long to know, ⁴  O Lord God.

1 Tawarikh 22:14

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ⁵  I have stored up 100,000 talents ⁶  of gold, 1,000,000 ⁷  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!

[11:23]  ¹ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches for the standard cubit, this individual would be 7.5 feet (2.3 m) tall.

[11:23]  ² tn Heb “went down to.”

[17:17]  ³ tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.”

[17:17]  ⁴ tn The translation “You have revealed to me what men long to know” is very tentative; the meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear. The text appears to read literally, “and you see me like the searching of man, that which is upward,” which is nonsensical. The translation above assumes the following: (1) The Qal verb translated “you see me” is repointed as a Hiphil, “you showed me,” (2) תּוֹר (tor) is understood in the sense of “searching, exploring,” and (3) הַמַּעֲלָה (hamma’alah) is taken in a temporal sense of “that which lies beyond.” Thus one could translate, “you have shown me what men search for, what lies beyond.”

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ⁶ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”