Ezra 8:25
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
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Gill's Exposition
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,.... Which, according to Scheuchzer (a) amount to 975,000 imperials, and, of our money, 2,229,450 pounds sterling: and silver vessels…
We have here an account of the particular care which Ezra took of the treasure he had with him, that belonged to God's sanctuary, Observe, 1. Having committed the keeping of it to God, he committed…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and weighed Money was still for the most part reckoned by weight (cf. on Ezr 7:22).
the silver, &c. The offerings referred to in Ezr 7:15-18, and the vessels given by the king and others Ezr 7:19; Ezr…
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