2 Chronicles 9:9

9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ¹  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. ² 

2 Chronicles 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ³  manned by Huram’s men ⁴  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁵  came into port with cargoes of ⁶  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 14:8

14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.

2 Chronicles 16:8

16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you!

2 Chronicles 25:13

25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle ⁸  raided ⁹  the cities of Judah from Samaria ¹⁰  to Beth Horon. They killed ¹¹  3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 26:15

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 29:35

29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ¹⁴  They reasoned, ¹⁵  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

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¹ 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).

² tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

³ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

⁵ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

⁶ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

⁷ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

⁸ tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”

⁹ tn Heb “stripped.”

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¹¹ tn Heb “struck down.”

¹² tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

¹³ tn Or “established.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

¹⁵ tn Heb “land, saying.”