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1 Kings 9:28
1 Kings 9:28 is verse 28 of 1 Kings chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.
420 talents is approximately 15.8 tons or 14.4 metric tons of gold.
King James Version
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
World English Bible
They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 420 talents is about 12.6 metric tons
Read in context
1 Kings 9:26–28 · Berean Standard Bible
26 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
27 And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
28 They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 10:11(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
Genesis 10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
1 Chronicles 29:4three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
2 Chronicles 8:18So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:10(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Job 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.