Ezra 8:26

unto their hand R.V. into their hand. Cf. note on Ezra 1:8.

The enormous value of these gifts is startling. The suspicion that the figures have been exaggerated by copyists is not unnatural.

six hundred and fifty talentsof silver A talent of silver being reckoned as worth £375, this means a sum approaching to a quarter of a million sterling, £243,750.

silver vessels an hundred talents i.e. worth a 100 talents = £37,500.

and of gold an hundred talents R.V. omits -and". A gold talent was worth about £6,750; 100 talents would then = £675,000.