1 Kings 5:18

5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹  along with men from Byblos, ²  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ³ 

1 Kings 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved ⁴  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. ⁵  He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. ⁶ 

1 Kings 15:22

15:22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁷  King Asa used the materials to build up ⁸  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

1 Kings 17:10

17:10 So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ⁹  of water, so I can take a drink.”

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¹ tn Heb “builders.”

² tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

³ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”

⁴ tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

⁵ tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

⁶ tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

⁷ tn Heb “and King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, there was no one exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

⁸ tn Heb “and King Asa built with them.”

⁹ tn Heb “a little.”