1 Kings 4 Footnotes

4:11 “Naphath-dor” was an important harbor on the Carmel coast.

4:19 Gilead was the southernmost of the three Transjordan districts, although Gilead was the name for the entire Transjordan at that time. But the district occupied the Moabite mesa from Arnon in the south to Heshbon in the north.

4:24 Tiphsah was a town on the upper Euphrates about seventy-five miles south of Carchemish, located on the main trade route connecting Mesopotamia to the west. Gaza was the old Philistine city on the southern coastal plain of Palestine. Solomon’s kingdom, then, went from the Euphrates River in the northeast to the border of Egypt on the southwest. This is the extent promised to Abraham in Gn 15:18.

4:26 Dt 17:16 forbids the accumulation of many horses.