1 Kings 2:14

2:14 He added, ¹  “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

1 Kings 9:28

9:28 They sailed ²  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents ³  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

1 Kings 18:8

18:8 He replied, “Yes, ⁴  go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’” ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “and he said.”

² tn Heb “went.”

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 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”

⁴ tn Heb “[It is] I.”

⁵ tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”