14 Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[a] of gold.(A)

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  1. 1 Kings 9:14 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons

14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

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10 And she gave the king 120 talents[a] of gold,(A) large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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  1. 1 Kings 10:10 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons

10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

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11 (Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir;(A) and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood[a] and precious stones.

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  1. 1 Kings 10:11 Probably a variant of algumwood; also in verse 12

11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

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Solomon’s Splendor(A)

14 The weight of the gold(B) that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[a]

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  1. 1 Kings 10:14 That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons

14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

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21 All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold.(A) Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s days.

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21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

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15 The king made silver and gold(A) as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.

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15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

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I amassed silver and gold(A) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.(B) I acquired male and female singers,(C) and a harem[a] as well—the delights of a man’s heart.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

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