2 Chronicles 3:5

3:5 He paneled ¹  the main hall ²  with boards made from evergreen trees ³  and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 3:14

3:14 He made the curtain out of violet, purple, crimson, and white fabrics, and embroidered on it decorative cherubim.

2 Chronicles 3:8

3:8 He made the most holy place; ⁵  its length was 30 feet, ⁶  corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. ⁷  He plated it with 600 talents ⁸  of fine gold.

2 Chronicles 5:12

5:12 All the Levites who were musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, wore linen. They played cymbals and stringed instruments as they stood east of the altar. They were accompanied by 120 priests who blew trumpets.

2 Chronicles 2:14

2:14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. ⁹  He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, violet, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.

2 Chronicles 9:10

9:10 (Huram’s ¹⁰  servants, aided by Solomon’s servants, brought gold from Ophir, as well as ¹¹  fine ¹²  timber and precious gems.

2 Chronicles 36:3

36:3 The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax ¹³  of one hundred talents ¹⁴  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 9:9

9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁵  of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹⁶ 

[3:5]  ¹ tn Heb “covered.”

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “the large house.”

[3:5]  ³ tn Heb “wood of evergreens.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he put up on it palm trees and chains.”

[3:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of the holy place of holy places.”

[3:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), this would give a length of 30 feet (9 m).

[3:8]  ⁷ tc Heb “twenty cubits.” Some suggest adding, “and its height twenty cubits” (see 1 Kgs 6:20). The phrase could have been omitted by homoioteleuton.

[3:8]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “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, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold plating was 40,380 lbs. (18,360 kg).

[2:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”

[9:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “Huram’s” (also in v. 21). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[9:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “who brought gold from Ophir, brought.”

[9:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “algum.”

[36:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “a fine.”

[36:3]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “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, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

[9:9]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “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, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).

[9:9]  ²² tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”