1 Kings 2:44

2:44 Then the king said to Shimei, “You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David.¹ The Lord will punish you for what you did.²

1 Kings 4:23

4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall,³ twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet⁴ long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold,⁵ as well as the cedar altar.⁶

9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men.⁷

12:23 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah, and to all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the rest of the people,

20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”

¹tn Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”

²tn Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”

³tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

⁴tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

⁵tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

⁶tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

⁷tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”