1 Kings 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet ¹  long, six feet ²  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ³  high.

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 18:22

18:22 Elijah said to them: ⁶  “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

[7:27]  ¹ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ² tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ³ tn Heb “three cubits.”

[9:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “went.”

[9:28]  ⁵ 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.”

[18:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “to the people.”