Discovery Box1 Kings 6:22 
Context6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 1
1 Kings 6:35
Context6:35 He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
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 tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”
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.”
