1 Kings 9:10

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9:10 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, ¹ 

1 Kings 9:14

9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents ²  of gold.

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¹ tn Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”

² 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.”