1 Kings 1:3

1:3 So they looked through all Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

1 Kings 4:28

4:28 Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses.

1 Kings 9:28

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

1 Kings 10:25

10:25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.


tn Heb “through all the territory of Israel.”

tn Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”

tn Heb “went.”

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.”

tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”