3 Kings 9:28
And they came to Ophir, and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui cum venissent in Ophir, sumptum inde aurum quadringentorum viginti talentorum, detulerunt ad regem Salomonem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Σωφηρά, καὶ ἔλαβον ἐκεῖθεν χρυσίου ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι τάλαντα καὶ ἤνεγκαν τῷ βασιλεῖ Σαλωμών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ אוֹפִ֔ירָה וַיִּקְח֤וּ מִשָּׁם֙ זָהָ֔ב אַרְבַּע מֵא֥וֹת וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים כִּכָּ֑ר וַיָּבִ֖אוּ אֶל הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹֽה
Haydock's commentary
Ophir, in the East Indies; (Menochius) an island called Taprobana, or Sumatra; (Salien) or a country near the heads of the Euphrates and Tigris. (Calmet, Dissert.)
The variety of opinions is astonishing. Huet fixes upon Sophola, on the eastern coast of Africa; and supposes that the fleet of Hiram might proceed down a canal, which seems to have been formerly opened for a communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. (Strabo i. 17., and ii.) (Du Hamel)
The various commodities might be procured either in Africa, or, on the voyage, in other countries. (Haydock)
Twenty. Paralipomenon reads fifty. The letter c (20) and n (50) may easily have been mistaken. (Huet)
The thirty talents might be the value of other parts of the cargo, or might be spent in repairs and wages. (Calmet)
The sum here mentioned might be also refined gold. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.