And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
MESSAGE
This is all Hiram got from Solomon in exchange for four and a half tons of gold!
NKJV
Then Hiram sent the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
GWV
Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.
NET
Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents* of gold.
NET
9:14 Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents579
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 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”