1 Kings 9:14

14 misit quoque Hiram ad regem centum viginti talenta auri

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 egressusque est Hiram de Tyro ut videret oppida quae dederat ei Salomon et non placuerunt ei

13 et ait haecine sunt civitates quas dedisti mihi frater et appellavit eas terram Chabul usque in diem hanc

14 misit quoque Hiram ad regem centum viginti talenta auri

15 haec est summa expensarum quam obtulit rex Salomon ad aedificandam domum Domini et domum suam et Mello et murum Hierusalem et Eser et Mageddo et Gazer

16 Pharao rex Aegypti ascendit et cepit Gazer succenditque eam igni et Chananeum qui habitabat in civitate interfecit et dedit eam in dote filiae suae uxori Salomonis