1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ¹  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. ² 

1 Kings 16:16

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ³  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ⁴  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp.

[10:10]  ¹ 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.”

[10:10]  ² tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[16:16]  ³ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

[16:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”