Discovery Box1 Kings 6:20 
Context6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet 1 long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, 2 as well as the cedar altar. 3
1 Kings 9:11
Context9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre 4 twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.
1 Kings 10:11
Context10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.
1 Kings 10:25
Context10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. 5
1 Kings 15:15
Context15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 6
1 Kings 20:3
Context20:3 He said to him, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.’”
1 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”
1 Kings 22:48
Context22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 7 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
1 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).
2 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
3 tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”
4 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
5 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
6 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the
7 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
