2 Chronicles 9:9 - Exposition

An hundred and twenty talents of gold . Putting the value of gold at £4 per ounce, the value of one talent would be £5476, making a total of £657,120. Poole makes it £1,250,000; S. Clarke, f720,000. From our 2 Chronicles 9:13 , 2 Chronicles 9:14 we learn that in one year Solomon received 666 talents, beside what merchants brought. Any such spice . The parallel has "no more such abundance of spices," and "of spices very great store." The Arabian spices, and their land and even sea borne fragrance, as also the very lucrative trade they created, are often alluded to by historians (see, among many others, Herod; 3.113; Diod; 3.46; Strabo, 16.4, § 19). Much of all this so-termed giving was evidently matter of exchange . The queen got quid pro quo, while 2 Chronicles 9:13 of the parallel ( 1 Kings 10:1-29 .) seems to speak of the other truer giving.