Ezra 7:22

unto an hundred talentsof silver or £37, 500. Money reckoned by weight. A -kikkar" or talent of silver was of value about £375. A talent contained 60 manim or 3000 shekels, cf. on Ezra 2:69.

an hundred measuresof wheat The -measure" or -cor", equivalent to 8 bushels or 1 quarter. We learn from Ezekiel 45:14 that the -cor" contained 10 -baths" and was the same as the -homer", see also 1 Kings 4:22; 1Ki 5:11; 2 Chronicles 2:10; 2 Chronicles 27:5.

an hundred bathsof wine The -bath" contained 6 or 7 gallons (hins).

salt without prescribinghow much] The importance of salt in the sacrificial system appears from Leviticus 2:13 -And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt", cf. Ezra 6:9; Ezekiel 43:24. The translation of the A.V. and R.V. gives the general sense of the original (-which is not written"); LXX. οὗ οὔκ ἐστιν γραφή. The Vulg. -absque mensura".