1 Kings 6:2
6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 1 long, 30 feet 2 wide, and 45 feet 3 high.
1 Kings 6:36
6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.
1 Kings 8:13
8:13 O Lord, 4 truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
1 Kings 10:4
10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, 5 the palace 6 he had built,
1 Kings 11:8
11:8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. 7
1 Kings 16:32
16:32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.
1 tn 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.
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
3 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
4 tn The words “O Lord” do not appear in the original text, but they are supplied for clarification; Solomon addresses the Lord in prayer at this point.
5 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”