Discovery Box1 Kings 6:35 
Context6:35 He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
1 Kings 7:46-47
Context7:46 The king had them cast in earth foundries 1 in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. 2
1 Kings 8:50
Context8:50 Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them. 3
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. 4
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 They sailed 5 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 6 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:28
Context10:28 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt 7 and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.
1 Kings 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
1 tn Or perhaps, “molds.”
2 tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
3 tn Heb “and forgive your people who have sinned against you, [forgive] all their rebellious acts by which they rebelled against you, and grant them mercy before their captors so they will show them mercy.”
4 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
5 tn Heb “went.”
6 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.”
7 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.
