2 Samuel 14:26

WEB

²⁶When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,^[+] after the king’s weight.

KJV

²⁶And when he polled^[+] his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.

BSB

²⁶And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels,^[+] according to the royal standard.

FBV

²⁶He cut his hair every year because it got so heavy—it weighed two hundred royal shekels.

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Extra References

Ezekiel 44:20

²⁰“‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

1 Corinthians 11:14

¹⁴Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

2 Samuel 18:9

⁹Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Isaiah 3:24

²⁴It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Ezekiel 45:9-14

⁹“‘The Lord GOD says: “Enough, you princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord GOD. ¹⁰“You shall have just balances, a just ephah,^[+] and a just bath. ¹¹The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer,^[+] and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be the same as the homer. ¹²The shekel^[+] be twenty gerahs.^[+] Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

¹³“‘“^[+] This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley, ¹⁴and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer),

Leviticus 19:36

³⁶You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah,^[+] and a just hin.^[+] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 23:16

¹⁶Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.