1 Kings 9 · Verse 14

1 Kings 9:14

And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1 Kings 9:14, King James Version

1 Kings 9:14 in other translations

BSBAnd Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
WEBHiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
ASVAnd Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
YLTAnd Hiram sendeth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
DARBYAnd Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.
BBEAnd Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
WebsterAnd Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

What does 1 Kings 9:14 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 9:10-14

Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities. Hiram did not like them. If Solomon would gratify him, let it be in his own element, by becoming his partner in trade, as he did. See how the providence of God suits this earth to the various tempers of men, and the dispositions of men to the earth, and all for the good of mankind in general.

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1 Kings 9:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥חvai.yish.Lachand he had sentH7971
חִירָ֖םchi.RamHiramH2438
לַמֶּ֑לֶךְla.Me.lekhto the kingH4428
מֵאָ֥הme.'Ahone hundredH3967
וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםve.'es.Rimand twentyH6242
כִּכַּ֥רki.Kartalent[s] ofH3603
זָהָֽב\׃za.HavgoldH2091

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 9:14

  • 1 Kings 9:11

    (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kings 10:14

    Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

  • 1 Kings 10:10

    And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

  • 1 Kings 10:21

    And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

  • 1 Kings 9:28

    And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
11,28; 10:10,14,21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 9:13

    And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

  • 1 Kings 9:14

    And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

  • 1 Kings 9:15

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

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1 Kings 9:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y había Hiram enviado al rey ciento y veinte talentos de oro.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Hiram envoya au roi 120 talents d’or.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Hiram hatte nämlich dem König 120 Talente Gold gesandt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Misit quoque Hiram ad regem Salomonem centum viginti talenta auri.