1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ¹  of gold per year, ² 

1 Kings 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ³  of gold were used for each shield.

1 Kings 10:19-20

10:19 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. ⁴  10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ⁵ 

1 Kings 16:23

16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ⁶  wide, the middle floor nine feet ⁷  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ⁸  feet wide. He made ledges ⁹  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ¹⁰ 

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 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

⁵ tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

⁷ tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”

⁹ tn Heb “five cubits.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “six cubits.”

¹¹ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

¹² tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

¹³ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”