Discovery Box| (0.35) | 1Ki 6:3 |
| The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet 1 long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet 2 wide, extending out from the front of the temple. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 6:7 |
| As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry 1 were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 6:38 |
| In the eleventh year, in the month Bul 1 (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 7:23 |
| He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 1 It measured 15 feet 2 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 3 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 7:24 |
| Under the rim all the way around it 1 were round ornaments 2 arranged in settings 15 feet long. 3 The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 7:31 |
| Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. 1 On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 8:9 |
| There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 1 It was there that 2 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 8:21 |
| and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with our ancestors 1 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.” |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 9:3 |
| The Lord said to him, “I have answered 1 your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; 2 I will be constantly present there. 3 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 9:8 |
| This temple will become a heap of ruins; 1 everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, 2 saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’ |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 10:19 |
| There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. 1 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 11:11 |
| So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, 1 I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 11:12 |
| However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:3 |
| That day he also announced 1 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 2 The altar will be split open and the ashes 3 on it will fall to the ground.” 4 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:4 |
| When the king heard what the prophet 1 cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand 2 and ordered, 3 “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up 4 and he could not pull it back. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:24 |
| As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. 1 His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. 2 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:25 |
| Some men came by 1 and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. 2 They went and reported what they had seen 3 in the city where the old prophet lived. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 13:28 |
| He went and found the corpse lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; 1 the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 14:8 |
| I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 1 |
| (0.35) | 1Ki 14:11 |
| Dogs will eat the members of your family 1 who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it! |
