1 Kings 6:32

6:32 On the two doors made of olive wood he carved ¹  cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. ²  He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold. ³ 

1 Kings 10:10

10:10 She gave the king 120 talents ⁴  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. ⁵ 

1 Kings 10:22

10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships ⁶  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁷  came into port with cargoes of ⁸  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁹ 

1 Kings 12:28

12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, ¹⁰  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ¹¹  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

[6:32]  ¹ tn Heb “carved carvings of.”

[6:32]  ² tn Heb “he plated [with] gold” (the precise object is not stated).

[6:32]  ³ tn Heb “and he hammered out the gold on the cherubs and the palm trees.”

[10:10]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “there has not come like those spices yet for quantity which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[10:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[10:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[10:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “came carrying.”

[10:22]  ¹⁰ tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”

[12:28]  ¹⁰ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to them,” although this may be a corruption of “to the people.” Cf. the Old Greek translation.