1 Chronicles 29:7
Ver. 7. And gave for the service of the house of God,.... For building and adorning it, and providing proper utensils for it:
of gold five thousand talents; which, according to Scheuchzer {l}, came to 61,100,000 ducats of gold: and these, with "the 10,000 drachms"; make of our money, according to Brerewood {m}, 22,507,500 pounds; some reckon a drachm at two ducats and a half, and somewhat more {n}:
and of silver ten thousand talents; which, according to the former writer, amounted to 450,000,000 imperials, or rix dollars; and, according to the latter, they made of our money 3,750,000 pounds:
and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron; the weight of each of which were so much.
{l} Ut supra. (Physica Sacra, vol. 4. p. 631.) {m} Ut supra. (Physica Sacra, vol. 4. p. 631.) {n} Eisenschmidius apud Scheuchzer. ib. p. 635.