Footnote 3 – Does the Bible Exaggerate King Solomon’s Golden Wealth?

In the Hebrew text, the denomination of the weight is not given. This is not uncommon, and the reader was expected to know it would be the most common for the type of object being weighed, and so was usually the shekel, as assumed here. One might compare the English use of “a half” in ordering drink, when “pint” is understood but not stated.