3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 2 Solomon would offer up 3 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
1 tn Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”
2 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
3 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
4 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
5 tn Heb “saw.”
6 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”