1 Kings 9:14
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
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" {m}, and is the sum of the gold he furnished him with for the temple, 1 Kings 9:11 which, according to Brerewood {n}, was 540,000 pounds of our money; and, according to another {o} writer, it amounted to 1,466,400 ducats of gold, taking a talent at 12,220 ducats.
{m} xlvy "miserat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
{n} De Ponderibus & Pretiis, Vet. Num. c. 5.
{o} Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 571.
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