1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ¹  of gold per year, ² 

1 Kings 10:16

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ³  of gold were used for each shield.

1 Kings 10:19-20

10:19 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and the back of it was rounded on top. The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. ⁴  10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ⁵ 

1 Kings 10:29

10:29 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ⁶ 

1 Kings 11:16

11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ⁷  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ⁸ 

1 Kings 16:8

Elah’s Reign over Israel

16:8 In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha’s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

1 Kings 16:23

16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

1 Kings 6:6

6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ⁹  wide, the middle floor nine feet ¹⁰  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ¹¹  feet wide. He made ledges ¹²  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ¹³ 

[10:14]  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 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:14]  ² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

[10:16]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

[10:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

[10:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”

[10:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “and a chariot went up and came out of Egypt for six hundred silver [pieces], and a horse for one hundred fifty, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

[11:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and all Israel.”

[11:16]  ¹² tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

[6:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “six cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

[6:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

[6:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”