1 Kings 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

1 Kings 12:2

12:2 ¹  When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. ² 

1 Kings 10:12-14

10:12 With the timber the king made supports ³  for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments ⁴  for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day. ⁵ ) 10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. ⁶  Then she left and returned ⁷  to her homeland with her attendants.

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ⁸  of gold per year, ⁹ 

[12:2]  ¹ tc Verse 2 is not included in the Old Greek translation. See the note on 11:43.

[12:2]  ² tn Heb “and Jeroboam lived in Egypt.” The parallel text in 2 Chr 10:2 reads, “and Jeroboam returned from Egypt.” In a purely consonantal text the forms “and he lived” and “and he returned” are identical (וישׁב).

[10:12]  ³ tn This Hebrew architectural term occurs only here. The meaning is uncertain; some have suggested “banisters” or “parapets”; cf. TEV, NLT “railings.” The parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:11 has a different word, meaning “tracks,” or perhaps “steps.”

[10:12]  ⁴ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither” [?]), and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[10:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “there has not come thus, the fine timber, and there has not been seen to this day.”

[10:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”

[10:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[10:14]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”