Discovery Box1 Kings 5:18--6:2 
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
6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv 4 (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple. 6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 5 long, 30 feet 6 wide, and 45 feet 7 high.
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 sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966
5 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.
6 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
7 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
