1 Kings 5:16

5:16 besides 3,300 ¹  officials who supervised the workers. ² 

1 Kings 9:23

9:23 These men were also in charge of Solomon’s work projects; there were a total of 550 men who supervised the workers. 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 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ⁶  of gold per year, ⁷ 

1 Kings 10:16-17

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ⁸  of gold were used for each shield. 10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas ⁹  of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

1 Kings 18:22

18:22 Elijah said to them: ¹²  “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

[5:16]  ¹ tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[9:23]  ³ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”

[9:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “went.”

[9:28]  ⁶ 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.”

[10:14]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

[10:16]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

[10:17]  ¹¹ sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.

[10:17]  ¹² sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.

[10:29]  ¹³ 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.”

[18:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to the people.”