Text -- 1 Kings 9:28 (NET)

9:28 They sailed to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:28

¹ tn Heb “went.”

² tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”