Discovery Box1 Kings 6:30 
Context6:30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out. 1
1 Kings 9:14
Context9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents 2 of gold.
1 Kings 10:18
Context10:18 The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
1 sn Inside and out probably refers to the inner and outer rooms within the building.
2 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.”
