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Jueces 8:26
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El peso de los zarcillos de oro que él pidió fue de mil setecientos siclos de oro, sin contar los adornos de media luna, los pendientes y los vestidos de púrpura que llevaban los reyes de Madián y sin contar los collares que llevaban sus camellos al cuello.
Y fu� el peso de los zarcillos de oro que �l pidi�, mil y setecientos siclos de oro; sin las planchas, y joyeles, y vestidos de p�rpura, que tra�an los reyes de Madi�n, y sin los collares que tra�an sus camellos al cuello.
Y fue el peso de los zarcillos de oro que �l pidi�, mil setecientos siclos de oro; sin las planchas, y joyeles, y vestiduras de p�rpura que portaban los reyes de Madi�n, y sin los collares que tra�an sus camellos al cuello.
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!
