Discovery Box1 Kings 2:14 
Context2:14 He added, 1 “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”
1 Kings 9:28
Context9:28 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
Context18:8 He replied, “Yes, 4 go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’” 5
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.”
