1 Kings 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ¹  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ²  as well as the cedar altar. ³ 

1 Kings 9:14

9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents ⁴  of gold.

1 Kings 4:23

4:23 ten calves fattened in the stall, ⁵  twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

1 Kings 6:2

6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet ⁶  long, 30 feet ⁷  wide, and 45 feet ⁸  high.

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed ⁹  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ¹⁰  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 22:42

22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹¹  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

1 Kings 5:11

5:11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors ¹²  of wheat as provision for his royal court, ¹³  as well as 20,000 baths ¹⁴  of pure ¹⁵  olive oil. ¹⁶ 

1 Kings 8:63

8:63 Solomon offered as peace offerings ¹⁷  to the Lord 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁸  of gold, a very large quantity of spices, and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

² tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

³ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

⁴ 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.”

⁷ tn The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.

¹⁰ tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

¹² tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

¹³ tn Heb “went.”

¹⁴ 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.”

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¹⁹ sn As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.

²⁰ tn Heb “his house.”

²¹ tc The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.”

²² tn Or “pressed.”

²³ tn Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”

²² tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

²⁵ 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.”

²⁶ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”