1 Kings 6:22

6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. ¹ 

1 Kings 7:48-50

7:48 Solomon also made all these items for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence, ²  7:49 the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, 7:50 the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

1 Kings 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ³  of gold per year, ⁴ 

1 Kings 10:16-17

10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ⁵  of gold were used for each shield. 10:17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas ⁶  of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ⁷ 

[6:22]  ¹ tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”

[7:48]  ² tn Heb “the bread of the face [or presence].” Many recent English versions employ “the bread of the Presence,” although this does not convey much to the modern reader.

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

[10:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

[10:16]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has simply “six hundred,” with no unit of measure given.

[10:17]  ⁵ sn Three minas. The mina was a unit of measure for weight.

[10:17]  ⁶ 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.