where in I Kings do they talk about the value of Pi?

1 Kings 7:24 states that the value of pi is 3.

Of course there is a certain category error here, since the value of pi is (so we are told by the mathematicians) one of those things that we can never provide the "correct" answer for -- it goes on an on and on. So the 1 Kings writer would have either had to estimate or else he would still be writing today.

Volume of Sphere = 4/3 pi R^3

1/2 V = 1/2 4/3 pi R^3

Where R = 10...

2/3 pi (10)^3 = 2/3 pi 1000

2/3 (3141.5)

.666... (3141.5) = 2094.333...

2094.333.. - 2012 = 82.333 the age of Moses following Egyptian plagues of 10...

Answer! Daily Double! Is that Pi are round or Pi are square?

I Kings 7:24

As for this being an approximation, it doesn't say that. If the Bible is the literal exact Word of God, why does it suddenly use an "approximation". Perhaps several other places (such as the Creation account) are "approximation"s.

"They" don't. The author of the text simply described the approximate dimensions of an ornate and non-cylindrical basin. So despite popular myths, the numbers are irrelevant to a discussion of Pi and only the mathematically challenged (or those who are gullible?) think the text addresses Pi in any way.

In the classroom this famous myth was always in my Top Ten List of lame "Bible error" factoids. I sometimes used in homework assignments in "Intro to Ancient Near Eastern Texts" so that students could investigate popular Bible myths for themselves.

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

The BIble says "Pi=3". Science says "Pi=3.14159265...."