2 Samuel 8:11

8:11 King David dedicated these things to the Lord, ¹  along with the dedicated silver and gold that he had taken from ²  all the nations that he had subdued,

2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ³  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ⁴  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

[8:11]  ¹ tn Heb “also them King David made holy to the Lord.”

[8:11]  ² tn Heb “with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from.”

[12:30]  ³ 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.”

[12:30]  ⁴ 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.