'Three' in the Bible

But three years later, two of Shimei's servants escaped to Maacah's son Achish, the king of Gath.

Three days later, this woman also gave birth. We lived alone there. There was nobody else with us in the house. It was just the two of us.

He constructed the inner court with three rows of precut stone and a row of cedar beams.

with three rows of framed windows facing each other in three ranks.

All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with the doorways facing each other in three tiers.

So the great court was surrounded by three rows of cut stone, along with a row of cedar beams, just like the inner court of the LORD's Temple and the porch surrounding the Temple.

The sea stood on top of twelve oxen. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east. The sea was set on top of them, and their hind parts faced the center.

Hiram also made ten bronze water carts. Each one was four cubits wide, four cubits long, and three cubits high.

Three times every year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he had built to the LORD, burning incense with the offerings in the presence of the Lord. This concludes the record of the Temple construction.

because the king had ships that sailed to Tarshish accompanied by Hiram's ships. Once every three years ships from Tarshish returned, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

"Come again in three days," Rehoboam told them. So the people left

So Jeroboam and all the people went back to Rehoboam on the third day, just as they had been directed when the king said, "Come back again in three days."

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

Then he stretched himself three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please cause the soul of this little boy to return to him."

Quite some time later three years later! this message from the LORD came to Elijah: "Go visit Ahab, and I'll send some rain to the surface of the ground."

Three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.