Discovery Box1 Kings 1:50 
Context1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 1
1 Kings 2:45
Context2:45 But King Solomon will be empowered 2 and David’s dynasty 3 will endure permanently before the Lord.”
1 Kings 4:11
Context4:11 Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)
1 Kings 4:22
Context4:22 Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed 4 thirty cors 5 of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,
1 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 6 long, 30 feet 7 wide, and 45 feet 8 high.
1 Kings 7:47
Context7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. 9
1 Kings 8:2
Context8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival 10 in the month Ethanim 11 (the seventh month).
1 Kings 9:2
Context9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 12
1 Kings 9:12
Context9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 They sailed 14 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 15 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:4
Context10:4 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, 16 the palace 17 he had built,
1 Kings 10:16
Context10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures 18 of gold were used for each shield.
1 Kings 10:24
Context10:24 Everyone 19 in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 20
1 Kings 10:28
Context10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt 21 and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.
1 sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.
2 tn Or “blessed.”
3 tn Heb “throne.”
4 tn Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”
5 tn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.
6 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.
7 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
8 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
9 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
10 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
11 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.
12 sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.
13 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
14 tn Heb “went.”
15 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “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 to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
16 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
17 tn Heb “house.”
18 tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.
19 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.
20 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
21 sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.
