¹sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
²tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”
³tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted.”
⁴tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
⁵tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
⁶tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”
⁷tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vg spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.
⁸map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
⁹tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
¹⁰tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
¹¹tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
¹²tn Heb “for the name of.”
¹³tn Heb “and the regular display.”
¹⁴tn Heb “permanently [is] this upon Israel.”
¹⁵tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The same Hebrew term, <y]m^v* (v*m^y]<), may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
¹⁶tn Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”
¹⁷map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
¹⁸tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.
¹⁹tn Heb “know.”
²⁰sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).
²¹tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).
²²tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vg spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.
²³tn Heb “who has given to David a wise son [who] knows discernment and insight, who will build a house for the Lord and house for his kingship.”
²⁴sn The name Huram Abi means “Huram [is] my father.”
²⁵tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”
²⁶tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”
²⁷tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons—it is somewhat redundant.
²⁸tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.
²⁹tn Heb “counted.”
³⁰tn Heb “made.”
³¹tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
³²tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
³³tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”