Discovery Box1 Kings 6:8 
Context6:8 The entrance to the bottom 1 level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up 2 to the middle floor and then on up to the third 3 floor.
1 Kings 15:33
Context15:33 In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.
1 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 4 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
2 tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
3 tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “the word of the
