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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold,A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.”
— WEB
“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 exceeding much spoil out of the city.”
— KJV
“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 forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.”
— ASV
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. precious stones--Hebrew, a "stone," or cluster of precious stones, which was set on David's head.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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