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What does 1 Kings 9:14 mean?

"Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold."

— 1 Kings 9:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

11

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

12

Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

13

He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

14

Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

15

This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16

Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17

Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,

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