1 Kings 9:14

14 Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 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 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them.

13 “What kind of towns are these, my brother?” he asked. So Hiram called that area Cabul (which means “worthless”), as it is still known today.

14 Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.

15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD ’s Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16 (Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer, killing the Canaanite population and burning it down. He gave the city to his daughter as a wedding gift when she married Solomon.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or For Hiram had paid.
• [b]. Hebrew 120 talents [4,000 kilograms].