Both quotes are misleading. I don’t know how it reads in the King James (i.e., Christian) translation, but the Kings quote does not reference Pi or what it represents. As for the Ezra quote, the total is correct but that doesn’t mean it’s a total of the previous verses which can easily be read as EXAMPLES of a much larger list. Biblical scholars (of which I am not one) suggest that the numbers are to read as symbolic rather than actual, so that “40 days and 40 nights” or “40 years of wandering” simply means “many.”
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Both quotes are misleading. I don’t know how it reads in the King James (i.e., Christian) translation, but the Kings quote does not reference Pi or what it represents. As for the Ezra quote, the total is correct but that doesn’t mean it’s a total of the previous verses which can easily be read as EXAMPLES of a much larger list. Biblical scholars (of which I am not one) suggest that the numbers are to read as symbolic rather than actual, so that “40 days and 40 nights” or “40 years of wandering” simply means “many.”