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Ezra 8:25-27

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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 counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered: 26. I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, [and] of gold an hundred talents; 27. Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

Ezra 8:25-27 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezra 8:25

Theological / Devotional

Weighed unto them. The silver and gold were in bars or ingots, not in coined money. The Persians used coined money at this time, but the treasury kept the bulk of its stores in bars (Herodotus iii. 96).

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