1 Kings 1:36

1:36 Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded¹ to the king: “So be it!² May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it!³

1 Kings 7:15

7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet⁴ high and 18 feet⁵ in circumference.

1 Kings 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet⁶ long, six feet⁷ wide, and four-and-a-half feet⁸ high.

1 Kings 10:19

10:19 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.⁹

1 Kings 12:2

12:2 ¹⁰ When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.¹¹

1 Kings 13:28

13:28 He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it;¹² the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

¹tn Heb “answered and said.”

²tn Or “Amen.”

³tn Heb “So may the Lord God of my master the king say.”

⁴tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”

⁵tn Heb “twelve cubits.”

⁶tn Heb “four cubits.”

⁷tn Heb “four cubits.”

⁸tn Heb “three cubits.”

⁹tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹⁰tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.

¹¹tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).

¹²tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.