1 Kings 3:15

3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. ¹  He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, ²  and held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ³  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ⁴  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁵  floor.

1 Kings 18:43

18:43 He told his servant, “Go on up and look in the direction of the sea.” So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” ⁶  Seven times Elijah sent him to look. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “and look, a dream.”

² tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

³ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

⁴ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

⁵ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

⁶ sn So he went on up, looked, and reported, “There is nothing.” Several times in this chapter those addressed by Elijah obey his orders. In vv. 20 and 42 Ahab does as instructed, in vv. 26 and 28 the prophets follow Elijah’s advice, and in vv. 30, 34, 40 and 43 the people and servants do as they are told. By juxtaposing Elijah’s commands with accounts of those commands being obeyed, the narrator emphasizes the authority of the Lord’s prophet.

⁷ tn Heb “He said, ‘Return,’ seven times.”