1 Kings 9:14

Easy-to-Read Version

Hiram had sent King Solomon about 9000 pounds of gold to use in building the Temple.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds of gold.

Hebrew Names Version
Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

King James Version
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

English Standard Version
Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

New Century Version
Hiram had sent Solomon about nine thousand pounds of gold.

New English Translation
Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

Amplified Bible
And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

New American Standard Bible
And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Hiram had sent the King sixe score talents of gold.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

Contemporary English Version
He sent Solomon only five tons of gold in return.

Complete Jewish Bible
(Hiram had sent the king four tons of gold.)

Darby Translation
And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

George Lamsa Translation
And King Hiram sent to King Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Good News Translation
Hiram had sent Solomon almost five tons of gold.

Lexham English Bible
Then Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Literal Translation
And Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Hiram vnto the kynge, sixe score hundreth weight of Golde.

American Standard Version
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

Bible in Basic English
And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hiram sent the king sixe score talentes of gold.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

King James Version (1611)
And Hiram sent to the king sixe score talents of gold.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,

English Revised Version
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

Berean Standard Bible
And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Hiram sente to king Salomon sixe score talentis of gold.

Young's Literal Translation
And Hiram sendeth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Update Bible Version
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

World English Bible
Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

New King James Version
Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

New Living Translation
Nevertheless, Hiram paid Solomon 9,000 pounds of gold.

New Life Bible
The gold Hiram sent to the king weighed as much as 120 men.

New Revised Standard
But Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now Hiram had sent to the king, - a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Hiram sent to king Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

Revised Standard Version
Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ It took 20 years for King Solomon to build the Lord 's Temple and the king's palace. ¹¹ Hiram supplied Solomon with all the cedar, pine and gold that he wanted, so Solomon gave him 20 cities in Galilee. ¹² So Hiram traveled from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him. But Hiram was not pleased when he saw them. ¹³ King Hiram said, "What are these towns that you have given me, my brother?" King Hiram named that land the Land of Cabul. And that area is still called Cabul today. ¹⁴ Hiram had sent King Solomon about 9000 pounds of gold to use in building the Temple.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 9:11, 1 Kings 9:28, 1 Kings 10:10, 1 Kings 10:14, 1 Kings 10:21

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:9 - she gave 2 Chronicles 9:24 - every man Ecclesiastes 2:8 - silver

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 ישלח "miserat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. n De Ponderibus & Pretiis, Vet. Num. c. 5. o Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 571.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hiram sent sixscore talents of gold - Apparently, to show that, although disappointed, he was not offended. The sum sent was very large - above a million and a quarter of our money, according to one estimate of the weight of the Hebrew gold talent; or about 720,000 according to the estimate adopted in Exodus 38:24-29 note. At any rate, it was more than equal to a sixth part of Solomon’s regular revenue 1 Kings 10:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:14. Sixscore talents of gold. — This was the sum which Hiram had lent, and in order to pay this Solomon had laid a tax upon his people, as we afterward learn. The whole is very darkly expressed.