5:7 When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 1 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
17:17 After this 4 the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
1 tn Or “Blessed be the
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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
3 tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
3 tn Heb “after these things.”