And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also a great amount of spoil out of the city.
(1 chronicles 20:2)
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According to bible commentary a talent weighs 100 to 125 pounds?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
2. David took the crown of their king …, and found it to weigh a talent of gold—equal to one hundred twenty-five pounds. Some think that Malcom, rendered in our version "their king," should be taken as a proper name, Milcom or Molech, the Ammonite idol, which, of course, might bear a heavy weight. But, like many other state crowns of Eastern kings, the crown got at Rabbah was not worn on the head, but suspended by chains of gold above the throne.
Pulpits commentary tells us 124 pounds
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A talent of gold.—The Arabic Version says one hundred pounds. Modern scholars consider the “talent of gold” as about one hundred and thirty-one pounds troy. If the weight was anything like this, the crown was obviously more suited for the head of a big idol than of a man.
Can you imagine a man wearing 125 pounds of weight on his head? Wouldn't that break his neck, it will snap his neck instantly! Unless he was a giant.
a 1 kg bag of sugar is equal to 2.2 lbs, now you do the maths. could a man really wear a crown so heavy.
a 1 kg bag of sugar is equal to 2.2 lbs, now you do the maths. could a man really wear a crown so heavy.
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