1 Kings 1:22

1:22 Just then, 1  while she was still speaking to the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.

1 Kings 2:18

2:18 Bathsheba replied, “That’s fine, 2  I’ll speak to the king on your behalf.”

1 Kings 6:30

6:30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out. 3 

1 Kings 9:3

9:3 The Lord said to him, “I have answered 4  your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 5  I will be constantly present there. 6 

1 Kings 9:14

9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents 7  of gold.

1 tn Heb “look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) here draws attention to Nathan’s arrival and invites the audience to view the scene through the eyes of the participants.

2 tn Heb “[It is] good!”

3 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.

4 tn Heb “I have heard.”

5 tn Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).

6 tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”