1 Kings 9:27-28

9:27 Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon’s men. ¹  9:28 They sailed ²  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ³  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 9:2

9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ⁴ 

1 Kings 8:18

8:18 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ⁵ 

Psalms 45:9

45:9 Princesses ⁶  are among your honored guests, ⁷ 

your bride ⁸  stands at your right hand, wearing jewelry made with gold from Ophir. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”

² tn Heb “went.”

³ 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.”

⁴ sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

⁵ tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

⁶ tn Heb “daughters of kings.”

⁷ tn Heb “valuable ones.” The form is feminine plural.

⁸ tn This rare Hebrew noun apparently refers to the king’s bride, who will soon be queen (see Neh 2:6). The Aramaic cognate is used of royal wives in Dan 5:2-3, 23.

⁹ tn Heb “a consort stands at your right hand, gold of Ophir.”