Discovery Box1 Kings 9:28 
Context9:28 They sailed 1 to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 2 of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:22
Context10:22 Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships 3 that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet 4 came into port with cargoes of 5 gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 6
1 tn Heb “went.”
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 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”
3 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
4 tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”
5 tn Heb “came carrying.”
6 tn The meaning of this word is unclear. Some suggest “baboons.”
