1 Kings 9:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 9:11 : 11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.
  • 1 Kgs 9:28 : 28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 10:10 : 10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 10:14 : 14 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.

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  • 2 Chr 9:12-16
    5 verses
    81%

    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

    13 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

    14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

    15 And King Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

    16 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

    15 In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

    16 And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

    17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27-28
    2 verses
    79%

    27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

    28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
    79%

    18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 9:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

    12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

    13 And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.

  • Ezra 8:25-27
    3 verses
    77%

    25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

    26 Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,

    27 And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

  • 2 Chr 9:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.

    10 And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.

  • 1 Kgs 10:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

    11 And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.

  • 1 Chr 22:14
    75%

    14 Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

  • 1 Chr 29:7
    74%

    7 And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
    74%

    13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    73%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • Exod 38:24
    73%

    24 The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

  • 1 Chr 29:4
    73%

    4 Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house:

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    73%

    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    73%

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
    73%

    15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

  • 2 Chr 9:24
    72%

    24 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.

  • 1 Kgs 5:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

    8 Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

  • 2 Chr 2:2
    72%

    2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 2 Chr 3:8
    71%

    8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

  • Exod 37:24
    71%

    24 A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 5:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

    11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

  • 1 Kgs 10:25
    71%

    25 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.

  • 2 Chr 9:20
    71%

    20 All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.

  • Exod 25:39
    70%

    39 A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 10:29
    70%

    29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • Ezra 2:69
    70%

    69 Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.

  • 2 Chr 1:17
    70%

    17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • 1 Kgs 10:22
    70%

    22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    70%

    1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

  • 1 Chr 28:14
    70%

    14 Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;

  • 2 Chr 2:12
    70%

    12 And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    70%

    15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.