Discovery Box1 Kings 9:11 
Context9:11 King Solomon gave King Hiram of Tyre 1 twenty cities in the region of Galilee, because Hiram had supplied Solomon with cedars, evergreens, and all the gold he wanted.
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 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
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.”
