Discovery Box1 Kings 5:18 
Context5:18 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
Context6:32 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
Context15:22 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
Context17:10 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.”
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.”
