What Does 2 Chronicles 9:13 Mean in the King James?

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

2 Chronicles 9:13 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The Hebrew word for the gold’s “weight” grows from “to weigh,” making Solomon’s abundance a measured arrival.

THE MEANING

Abundance becomes concrete when it has a weight: the gold’s arrival to Solomon is counted across a year and stated in talents. The enormous number stands without explanation, leaving the scale of what arrives in view.

THE ROOT

מִשְׁקַל

mishqal

GROWS FROM

שקל

sh-q-l

to weigh, measure

The word ⁨מִשְׁקַל⁩ (mishqal, weight) is built on ⁨שָׁקַל⁩ (shaqal, to weigh), so the gold is pictured through an act of measuring. The related ⁨שֶׁקֶל⁩ (sheqel, a unit of weight and value) makes that link tangible; the same root also weighs a person’s integrity in Job 31:6.

ALSO GROWS

shaqal: to weigh, measure

שָׁקַל

This verb is the seed beneath “weight”: the gold’s amount is understood as something weighed.

sheqel: a unit of weight and value

שֶׁקֶל

The same root gives a standard measure for reckoning value, making the gold’s abundance concrete.

yishqeleni: let him weigh me

יִשְׁקְלֵנִי

Job uses this form for weighing a person’s integrity, carrying the same scale from gold to character.

THE PATTERN

Scripture turns what could remain abstract into a measure, making wealth, integrity, and giving legible.

A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 16:11 · KJVThe measure of weight also becomes a measure of fairness.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Job 31:6 · KJVThe language of weighing makes integrity something brought to the scales.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Luke 6:38 · KJVGiving is pictured through a measure that can be filled, pressed down, and returned.

THE THREAD

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Job 31:6 · KJV

The gold’s ⁨מִשְׁקַל⁩ (mishqal, weight) comes from ⁨שׁקל⁩ (sh-q-l, to weigh), the same root behind Job’s “Let me be weighed.” The shared root carries the scale from a king’s riches to a person’s integrity.

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