1 Kings 9:14

14 Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds 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 Hiram left Tyre to see the cities Solomon gave him. However, they didn't please him.

13 "What kind of cities have you given me, brother?" he asked. So he named it the region of Cabul [Good for Nothing]. ([They're] still [called] that today.)

14 Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.

15 This is the record of the forced laborers whom King Solomon drafted to build the LORD's house, his own house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, and [the cities of] Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16 (The king of Egypt captured Gezer, burned it down, and killed the Canaanites living there. Then he gave it to his daughter, Solomon's wife, as a wedding present.)