Discovery Box1 Kings 2:25 
Context2:25 King Solomon then sent 1 Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he killed Adonijah. 2
1 Kings 9:14
Context9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents 3 of gold.
1 Kings 18:20
Context18:20 Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.
1 Kings 20:2
Context20:2 He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city. 4
1 tn The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”
2 tn Heb “and he struck him and he died.”
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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”
4 tn Heb “to the city.”
