2 Samuel 12:30

12:30 He took the crown of their king ¹  from his head – it was gold, weighed about seventy-five pounds, ²  and held a precious stone – and it was placed on David’s head. He also took from the city a great deal of plunder.

Ratapan 5:16

5:16 The crown has fallen from our head;

woe to us, for we have sinned!

Yehezkiel 16:12

16:12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Yehezkiel 21:26

21:26 this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Tear off the turban, ³ 

take off the crown!

Things must change! ⁴ 

Exalt the lowly,

bring down the proud! ⁵ 

[12:30]  ¹ tn Part of the Greek tradition wrongly understands Hebrew מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”) as a proper name (“Milcom”). Some English versions follow the Greek here, rendering the phrase “the crown of Milcom” (so NRSV; cf. also NAB, CEV). TEV takes this as a reference not to the Ammonite king but to “the idol of the Ammonite god Molech.”

[12:30]  ² tn Heb “and its weight [was] a talent of gold.” The weight of this ornamental crown was approximately 75 lbs (34 kg). See P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 313.

[21:26]  ³ tn Elsewhere in the Bible the turban is worn by priests (Exod 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6; 39:28, 31; Lev 8:9; 16:4), but here a royal crown is in view.

[21:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “This not this.”

[21:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “the high one.”