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1 Kings 9:28

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9:28 They sailed 1  to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents 2  of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

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.”



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