1 Kings 1:39

1:39 Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil¹ from the tent and poured it on² Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, “Long live King Solomon!”

1 Kings 2:38

2:38 Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable.³ Your servant will do as you say.”⁴ So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.⁵

1 Kings 6:3

6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet⁶ long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet⁷ wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

1 Kings 7:2

7:2 He named⁸ it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”;⁹ it was 150 feet¹⁰ long, 75 feet¹¹ wide, and 45 feet¹² high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade¹³ 75 feet¹⁴ long and 45 feet¹⁵ wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.¹⁶

1 Kings 7:24

7:24 Under the rim all the way around it¹⁷ were round ornaments¹⁸ arranged in settings 15 feet long.¹⁹ The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”²⁰

1 Kings 7:31

7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long.²¹ On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames.²²

1 Kings 8:8

8:8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point.²³ They have remained there to this very day.

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

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

²tn Or “anointed.”

³tn Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”

⁴tn Heb “so your servant will do.”

⁵tn Heb “many days.”

⁶tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

⁷tn Heb “ten cubits.”

⁸tn Heb “he built.”

⁹sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

¹⁰tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”

¹¹tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

¹²tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

¹³tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

¹⁴tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

¹⁵tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

¹⁷tn Heb “The Sea.” The proper noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁸tn Or “gourd-shaped ornaments.”

¹⁹tn Heb “ten cubits surrounding the sea all around.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

²⁰tn Heb “the gourd-shaped ornaments were in two rows, cast in its casting.”

²¹tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.

²²tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”

²³tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”