1 Kings 9:14

14 And Hiram had sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

1 Kings 9:14 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents
of gold.
] Not after the cities had been given him, but before; and it may be rendered "had sent" ^F13, and is the sum of the gold he furnished him with for the temple, ( 1 Kings 9:11 ) which, according to Brerewood ^F14, was 540,000 pounds of our money; and, according to another ^F15 writer, it amounted to 1,466,400 ducats of gold, taking a talent at 12,220 ducats.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (xlvy) "miserat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F14 De Ponderibus & Pretiis, Vet. Num. c. 5.
F15 Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 571.

1 Kings 9:14 In-Context

12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And they called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

14 And Hiram had sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15 And this is the account of the levy which King Solomon raised to build the house of the LORD and his own house and Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

16 For Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had gone up and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city and given it for a gift unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.