the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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1 Chronicles 22:14
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trouble: or, poverty, 2 Corinthians 8:2
an hundred thousand: This, at 5,075. 15s. 7+d. the talent, would amount to the sum of 507,578,125. 1 Chronicles 29:4-7, 1 Kings 10:14
thousand thousand talents of silver: This, at 353. 11s. 10d. the talent, would amount to 353,591,666. 13s. 4d.; and both sums would amount to the immense sum of 868,169,791. 13s. 4d.
without weight: 1 Chronicles 22:3, 2 Kings 25:16, Jeremiah 52:20
Reciprocal: Exodus 38:24 - All the gold Numbers 7:85 - two thousand Deuteronomy 8:9 - whose stones 2 Samuel 8:8 - exceeding 2 Samuel 8:11 - Which 1 Kings 7:47 - found out 1 Chronicles 18:8 - wherewith 1 Chronicles 18:11 - dedicated 1 Chronicles 22:16 - the gold 1 Chronicles 26:20 - treasures 1 Chronicles 26:26 - over all the treasures 1 Chronicles 28:2 - had made ready 1 Chronicles 29:2 - I have prepared 1 Chronicles 29:3 - of mine own proper good 1 Chronicles 29:19 - the which 2 Chronicles 4:18 - the weight 2 Chronicles 5:1 - brought in all Ezra 2:69 - the treasure Job 28:2 - Iron
Cross-References
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
On the third day [of travel] Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Forsothe in the thridde dai he reiside hise iyen, and seiy a place afer;
On the third day -- Abraham lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the place from afar;
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now, behold, in my trouble,.... Or affliction, which had attended him, through the greater part of his reign, partly through wars abroad, and partly through rebellions and insurrections at home: or,
in my poverty a; living in a frugal way, as if he had been a poor man, in order to lay up money for this purpose:
I have prepared for the house of the Lord; for the building of it, and for things to be used in it:
an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; a prodigious sum, be it reckoned as it will; the gold, according to Scheuchzer b was answerable to 1,222,000,000 ducats of gold; according to Waserus c the talents of gold made six hundred millions of Hungarian pieces of gold, or 6000 tons of gold; our Brerewood d makes them to amount to 450,000,000 pounds; but this being a sum so excessive large as what exceeds the riches of any monarch read of in history, he thinks e the word "kikkar" signifies a mass or cake of gold of an uncertain value; or that this talent was of a lesser value than the Mosaic one, as there were small talents in the times of Homer f, as he observes, and some of different worth in various countries. The silver, taking gold to be in proportion to silver as ten to one, as it formerly was, is just of the same value with the gold; but Brerewood, who takes it to be as twelve to one, computes it at 375,000,000 pounds; but the proportion of gold to silver is now grown, as Bishop Cumberland observes g, to above fourteen to one. According to Scheuchzer the silver talents amounted to 4,500,000,000 imperials or rix dollars; according to Witsius h the gold and silver both amounted to 3000 and nine hundred millions of pieces of gold; but Josephus i has reduced these sums very much, making them to be 10,000 talents of gold, and 100,000 of silver. Dr. Prideaux k says that what is said to be given by David here, and in 1 Chronicles 29:3 and by his princes, 1 Chronicles 29:6 if valued by the Mosaic talent, exceeded the value of eight hundred million of our money, which was enough to have built the whole temple of solid silver:
and of brass and iron without weight, for it is in abundance; there was so much of both, that it was too much trouble to take the weight and value of them:
timber also and stone have I prepared; see 1 Chronicles 22:2
and thou mayest add thereunto; which might easily be obtained, there being not a sufficiency of either of them prepared for the work.
a בעניי "in paupertate mea", V. L. b Physica Sacra, vol. 4. p. 631. c De Antiqu. Num. Heb. l. 2. c. 13. d De Pond. & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 5. e De Pond. & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 6. f Vid. Suidam in voce ταλαντον. g Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 121. h Miscell. Sacr. 2. Exercit. 10. sect. 17. i Antiqu. l. 7. c. 14. sect. 2. k Connection, part 1. p. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In my trouble - See the margin. David refers to the manifold troubles of his reign, which had prevented him from accumulating very much treasure.
An hundred thousand talents of gold ... - We do not know the value of the Hebrew talent at this period, and therefore these numbers may be sound. But in that case we must suppose an enormous difference between the pre-Babylonian and the post-Babylonian talents. According to the value of the post-Babylonian Hebrew talent, the gold here spoken of would be worth more than 1 billion of our British pounds sterling, while the silver would be worth ahove 400 million pounds. Accumulations to anything like this amount are inconceivable under the circumstances, and we must therefore either suppose the talents of David’s time to have been little more than the 100th part of the later talents, or regard the numbers of this verse as augmentcd at least a hundredfold by corruption. Of the two the latter is certainly the more probable supposition.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Chronicles 22:14. In my trouble I have prepared — Notwithstanding ail the wars in which I have been engaged, all the treacheries with which I have been surrounded, all the domestic troubles with which I have been overwhelmed, I never lost sight of this great object, the building of a house for God, that his worship might be established in the land. I have curtailed my expenses, and have lived in comparative poverty that I might save all I possibly could for this building.
A hundred thousand talents of gold — A talent of gold weighed three thousand shekels, and was worth five thousand and seventy-five pounds, fifteen shillings, and seven pence half-penny. One hundred thousand such talents would therefore amount to five hundred and seven millions, five hundred and seventy-eight thousand, one hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling. These sums are variously computed by several writers.
A thousand thousand talents of silver — A talent of silver weighed three thousand shekels, and was worth three hundred and fifty-three pounds, eleven shillings, and ten pence. A thousand thousand, or a million, of such talents would amount to the immense sum of three hundred and fifty-three millions, five hundred and ninety-one thousand, six hundred and sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence, sterling; both sums amounting to eight hundred and sixty-one millions, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand, seven hundred and ninety-one pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence.
Thou mayest add thereto. — Save as I have saved, out of the revenues of the state, and thou mayest also add something for the erection and splendour of this house. This was a gentle though pointed hint, which was not lost on Solomon.
