1 Kings 1:50

1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.¹

1 Kings 2:45

2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered² and David’s dynasty³ will endure permanently before the Lord.”

1 Kings 4:11

4:11 Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)

1 Kings 4:22

4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed⁴ thirty cors⁵ of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

1 Kings 6:2

6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet⁶ long, 30 feet⁷ wide, and 45 feet⁸ high.

1 Kings 7:47

7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze.⁹

1 Kings 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival¹⁰ in the month Ethanim¹¹ (the seventh month).

1 Kings 9:2

9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.¹²

1 Kings 9:12

9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.¹³

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed¹⁴ to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents¹⁵ of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:4

10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom,¹⁶ the palace¹⁷ he had built,

1 Kings 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures¹⁸ of gold were used for each shield.

1 Kings 10:24

10:24 Everyone¹⁹ in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.²⁰

1 Kings 10:28

10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt²¹ and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

¹sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.

²tn Or “blessed.”

³tn Heb “throne.”

⁴tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”

⁵tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

⁶tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.

⁷tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

⁸tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

⁹tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

¹⁰sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

¹¹sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

¹²sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

¹³tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”

¹⁴tn Heb “went.”

¹⁵tn 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 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

¹⁶tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”

¹⁷tn Heb “house.”

¹⁸tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

¹⁹tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.

²⁰tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

²¹sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.