30 Then he took the crown from the head of their king.1 It weighed a talent of gold2 and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
1 Or from the head of Milcom. Milcom, also called Molech, was god of the Ammonites; see Leviticus 18:21 and 1 Kings 11:7.
2 A talent is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of gold.