the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
two thousand: 1 Chronicles 22:14, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 1 Chronicles 29:7, Ezra 8:25, Ezra 8:26
after the shekel: Numbers 7:13
Reciprocal: Zechariah 14:20 - the bowls Matthew 14:8 - a charger
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Each charger of silver [weighing] an hundred and thirty [shekels], each bowl seventy,.... :-;
all the silver vessels [weighed] two thousand and four hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary; which amounted to 1,139 ounces and four drachms k, which were worth about three hundred pounds of our money.
k Vid. Scheuchzer. ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p. 366.)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The aggregate worth, by weight, of the whole of the offerings was about 438 British pounds: But the real worth of such a sum, when measured by the prices of clothing and food at that time, must have been vastly greater.
