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 9:28

9:28 They sailed ⁴  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ⁵  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:11

10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

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. ⁶ 

1 Kings 20:5

20:5 The messengers came again and said, “This is what Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent this message to you, “You must give me your silver, gold, wives, and sons.”

1 Kings 22:48

22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships ⁷  to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.

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 Heb “went.”

⁵ 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.”

⁷ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.