Hakim-hakim 8:26

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Adapun berat anting-anting emas yang dimintanya itu ada seribu tujuh ratus syikal emas, belum terhitung bulan-bulanan, perhiasan telinga dan pakaian kain ungu muda yang dipakai oleh raja-raja Midian, dan belum terhitung kalung rantai yang ada pada leher unta mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Adapun berat anting-anting emas yang dimintanya itu ada seribu tujuh ratus syikal emas, belum terhitung bulan-bulanan, perhiasan telinga dan pakaian kain ungu muda yang dipakai oleh raja-raja Midian, dan belum terhitung kalung rantai yang ada pada leher unta mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adapun timbangan segala taparam emas, yang telah dipintanya itu, seribu tujuh ratus syikal emas beratnya, lain dari pada segala perhiasan bulan sehari dan kalung rantai dan pakaian ungu, yang telah dipakai oleh raja-raja Midian, dan lain dari pada segala perhiasan yang telah ada pada leher untanya.

Contextual Overview

²² Then the men of Israel sayde vnto Gedeon: Raigne thou ouer vs, both thou, thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne, for thou hast deliuered vs out of ye hand of Madian. ²³ And Gedeon sayd vnto them: I wyll not raigne ouer you, neither shall my childe raigne ouer you: but the Lorde shall raigne ouer you. ²⁴ And agayne Gedeon said vnto them: I would desire a request of you, euen that you would geue me euery man the earinges of his pray. For they had golden earinges, because they were Israelites. ²⁵ And they aunswered: We will gyue them. And they spread a mantell, and dyd cast therin euery man the earynges of his pray. ²⁶ And the wayght of ye golden earinges that he required, was a thousand and seuen hundred sicles of golde, besyde chaynes and iewelles, and purple rayment that was on the kynges of Madian, and besyde the chaynes that were about their camels neckes. ²⁷ And Gedeon made an Ephod therof, and put it in his citie Ephrah: And all Israel went a whoryng after it in the same place, which thing became a ruyne vnto Gedeon and to his house. ²⁸ Thus was Madian brought lowe before the children of Israel, so that they lyft vp their heades no more: And the countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeres in the dayes of Gedeon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a thousand: Taking the shekel at half an ounce, the sum of the gold ear-rings was 73 lbs. 4 oz. and worth about,300 sterling.

collars: or, sweet jewels

purple: Esther 8:15, Jeremiah 10:9, Ezekiel 27:7, Luke 16:19, John 19:2, John 19:5, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 18:12, Revelation 18:16

chains: Judges 8:21

Reciprocal: Psalms 73:6 - as a chain Jeremiah 49:29 - camels Daniel 3:1 - made

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the weight of the golden earrings he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold,.... Which, as Schcuchzer e computes, was eight hundred and ten ounces, five drachms, one scruple, and ten grains, of the weight of physicians; but as reckoned by Moatanus f amounted to eight hundred and fifty ounces, and were of the value of 6800 crowns of gold; and, according to Waserus g, it amounted to 3400 Hungarian pieces of gold, and of their money at Zurich upwards of 15,413 pounds, and of our money 2,380 pounds:

besides ornaments; such as were upon the necks of the camels, Judges 8:21 for the same word is used here as there:

and collars; the Targum renders it a crown, and Ben Melech says in the Arabic language the word signifies clear crystal; but Kimchi and Ben Gersom take them to be golden vessels, in which they put "stacte", or some odoriferous liquor, and so were properly smelling bottles:

and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian; which it seems was the colour that kings wore, as they now do; so Strabo h says of the kings of Arabia, that they are clothed in purple:

and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks; which seem to be different from the other ornaments about them, since another word is here used; now all these seem to have been what fell to his share, as the general of the army, and not what were given him by the people.

e Physica Sacra, vol. 3. p. 468. f Tubal Cain, p. 15. g De Numis. Heb. l. 2. c. 10. h Geograph. l. 16. p. 539.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If the Ishmaelite nose-rings were half a shekel in weight, then 1,700 shekels weight of gold implied that 3,400 persons wearing, gold rings had been slain. The “collars” were rather “ear-drops.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:26. The weight of the golden ear-rings - was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold — Taking the shekel at half an ounce weight, the sum of the gold collected in ear-rings was seventy pounds ten ounces; and worth, as gold now rates, about £3,100 sterling.

This computation of the weight of the golden ear-rings, taken from the slaughtered Ishmaelites, will bring to the reader's mind the slaughter of the Roman knights by the Carthaginians at the battle of Cannae, from whose spoils Hannibal sent three bushels of gold rings to the city of Carthage!