2 Chronicles 4:3

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches ¹  all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

2 Chronicles 9:9

9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ²  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. ³ 

2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁴  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ⁵  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 32:13

32:13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors ⁶  have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power? ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 34:14

34:14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses.

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¹ tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

² 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).

³ tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

⁴ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.

⁷ tn Heb “hand.”