1 Raja-raja 10:13-15
Konteks10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, besides what he had freely offered her. 1 Then she left and returned 2 to her homeland with her attendants.
10:14 Solomon received 666 talents 3 of gold per year, 4 10:15 besides what he collected from the merchants, 5 traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.
[10:13] 1 tn Heb “besides what he had given her according to the hand of King Solomon.”
[10:13] 2 tn Heb “turned and went.”
[10:14] 3 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 50,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “twenty-five tons”; TEV “almost 23,000 kilogrammes.”
[10:14] 4 tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold.”
