4:1 He made a bronze altar, 30 feet 1 long, 30 feet 2 wide, and 15 feet 3 high.
6:1 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.
11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem; 6 he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah:
15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. 7 He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. 8
17:12 Jehoshaphat’s power kept increasing. He built fortresses and storage cities throughout Judah.
18:1 Jehoshaphat was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made an alliance by marriage with Ahab,
27:6 Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the Lord his God. 16
1 tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the length would have been 30 feet (9 m).
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
3 tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).
4 tn Heb “and he built…[as] cities of fortification, [with] walls, doors, and a bar.”
5 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation in place of the proper name in keeping with contemporary English style.
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
7 tn Heb “strengthened himself.”
8 tn Heb “the porch of the
9 tn Heb “building.”
10 tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”
11 tn Heb “in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.”
12 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
13 tn Heb “a complete heart.”
14 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “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, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).
15 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
16 tn Heb “because he established his ways before the
17 tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser.
18 tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”
19 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the