1 Kings 1:53

1:53 King Solomon sent men to bring him down 1  from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him, “Go home.” 2 

1 Kings 3:10

3:10 The Lord 3  was pleased that Solomon made this request. 4 

1 Kings 5:10

5:10 So Hiram supplied the cedars and evergreens Solomon needed, 5 

1 Kings 7:1

The Building of the Royal Palace

7:1 Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. 6 

1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents 7  of gold per year, 8 

1 Kings 11:42

11:42 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem 9  for forty years.

1 tn Heb “sent and they brought him down.”

2 tn Heb “Go to your house.”

3 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

4 tn Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

5 tn Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”

6 tn Heb “His house Solomon built in thirteen years and he completed all his house.”

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 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

8 tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

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