1 Raja-raja 10:14

Solomon’s Wealth

10:14 Solomon received 666 talents ¹  of gold per year, ² 

1 Raja-raja 11:14

11:14 The Lord brought ³  against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.

1 Raja-raja 16:6

16:6 Baasha passed away ⁴  and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah replaced him as king.

1 Raja-raja 22:33

22:33 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

[10:14]  ¹ 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 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”

[10:14]  ² tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”

[11:14]  ³ tn Or “raised up.”

[16:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”