Discovery Box1 Kings 5:17 
Context5:17 By royal order 1 they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.
1 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 2 long, 30 feet 3 wide, and 45 feet 4 high.
1 Kings 6:22
Context6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 5
1 Kings 6:29
Context6:29 On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, 6 he carved 7 cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
1 Kings 8:11
Context8:11 The priests could not carry out their duties 8 because of the cloud; the Lord’s glory filled his temple. 9
1 Kings 8:13
Context8:13 O Lord, 10 truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
1 Kings 8:17
Context8:17 Now my father David had a strong desire 11 to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. 12
1 Kings 16:32
Context16:32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.
1 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
4 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
5 tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”
6 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
7 tn Heb “carved engravings of carvings.”
8 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
9 tn Heb “the house of the
10 tn The words “O
11 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father.”
12 tn Heb “to build a house for the name of the
