1 Kings 9:14

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

1 Kings 9:14 in Other Translations

KJV
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
ESV
14 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
NLT
14 Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.
MSG
14 This is all Hiram got from Solomon in exchange for four and a half tons of gold!
CSB
14 Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.

1 Kings 9:14 In-Context

12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
13 “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day.
14 Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.
15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD’s temple, his own palace, the terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.
16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

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Footnotes 1

  • [a]. That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons
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