'Three' in the Bible

Three years later two of Shimei's servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, "Look, your servants are in Gath."

Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.

All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the Lord's temple and the hall of the palace.

"The Sea" stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. "The Sea" was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.

Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place.

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

Along with Hiram's fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away.

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, "O Lord, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."

There was no war between Syria and Israel for three years.