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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 165

1 Kings 9:14

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1 Kings 9:14

Ver. 14. 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, 1Ki 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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