Text -- 1 Kings 9:14 (NET)

9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 9:14

¹ 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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”