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He had reigned forty years over Israel—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.
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But three years later, two of Shimei’s slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, “Your slaves are in Gath.”
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He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
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as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.
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And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.
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Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.
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All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.
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The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.
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The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.
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He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.
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Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.
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He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
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The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.
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He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
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Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went away.
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Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”
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and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.
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Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”
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Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab
For three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
