1 Kings 15:15

15:15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the Lord’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. ¹ 

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. ² 

1 Kings 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ³ 

1 Kings 10:21

10:21 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time. ⁴ 

1 Kings 15:19

15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ⁵  See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ⁶ 

1 Kings 16:24

16:24 He purchased the hill of Samaria ⁷  from Shemer for two talents ⁸  of silver. He launched a construction project there ⁹  and named the city he built after Shemer, the former owner of the hill of Samaria.

1 Kings 20:39

20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ¹⁰  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ¹¹  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ¹²  you will pay with your life or with a talent ¹³  of silver.’ ¹⁴ 

1 Kings 21:2

21:2 Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard so I can make a vegetable garden out of it, for it is adjacent to my palace. I will give you an even better vineyard in its place, or if you prefer, ¹⁵  I will pay you silver for it.” ¹⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things (into) the house of the Lord, silver, gold, and items.” Instead of “his holy things,” a marginal reading (Qere) in the Hebrew text has “the holy things of [the house of the Lord].”

² tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

³ tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

⁴ tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”

⁵ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

⁶ tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

⁶ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁷ 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 150 pounds of silver.

⁸ tn Heb “he built up the hill.”

⁷ tn Heb “middle.”

⁸ tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁹ tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.

¹⁰ 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 75 pounds of silver.

¹¹ tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”

⁸ tn Heb “if it is good in your eyes.”

⁹ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it will be mine as a garden of herbs.”