Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

2 Samuel 12:30

Context
NETBible

He took the crown of their king 1  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, 2  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

XREF

1Ch 20:2

NET © Notes

tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.



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