Ezra 8:26
Ver. 26. I even weighed unto their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,.... Which, according to Scheuchzer {a} amount to 975,000 imperials, and, of our money, 2,229,450 pounds sterling: and silver vessels one hundred talents; which came to 35,300 pounds, or 50,000 imperials; according to Jarchi, there were one hundred vessels, and every vessel weighed a talent, and so Aben Ezra, which, with Brerewood {b}, was three hundred and seventy five pounds:
and of gold one hundred talents; which, according to Scheuchzer {c}, were equal to 1,222,000 ducats of gold; the value of gold now is above 14 and a 3d to the value of silver, by which may be judged the difference between one hundred talents of gold and one hundred talents of silver; according to David de Pomis {d}, there were two sorts of talents; common talents, which weighed sixty pounds, and the talent of the sanctuary, which weighed double to that.
{a} Physica Sacra, vol. 4. p. 651. {b} De Pond. & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 4. {c} Ut supra. (Physica Sacra, vol. 4. p. 651.) {d} Tzemach David, fol. 57. 3.