1 Chronicles 29:4

“Even three thousand talents of gold, etc.] Which, according to Scheuchzer f142, amount to 36,660,000 ducats of gold; and, according to Brerewood f143, to 13,500,000 pounds of our money: of the gold of Ophir; which was reckoned the best gold; not Ophir in India, which was not known till Solomon’s time, but in Arabia, as Bochart f144 has shown; so Eupolemus f145, an Heathen writer, says, that David having built ships at Achan, a city of Arabia, sent miners to Urphe (supposed to be the same with Ophir) in the island of the Red sea, abounding with gold, and from thence fetched it, ((see Gill on <110928>1 Kings 9:28, and that he was able to give so great a sum out of his own substance, Dr.…”

“The numbers here have also suffered to some extent from the carelessness of copyists (compare the 1 Chronicles 22:14 note). The amount of silver is not indeed improbable, since its value would not exceed three millions of our money; but as the gold would probably exceed in value thirty millions, we may suspect an error in the words “three thousand.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“Of Ophir - The best and purest gold. The walls - The walls of the temple with God, and of the rooms adjoining to it, with silver beaten out into plates. 1 Chronicles 29:5”

“gold of Ophir: Kg1 9:28; Job 28:16 1 Chronicles 29:5”

“Gold 3000 talents, i.e., about 13 1/2, or, reckoning according to the royal shekel, 6 3/4 millions of pounds; 7000 talents of silver, circa 2 1/2 or 1 1/4 millions of pounds: see on Ch1 22:14. Gold of Ophir, i.e., the finest, best gold, corresponding to the pure silver. לטוּח, to overlay the inner walls of the houses with gold and silver leaf. הבּתים as in Ch1 28:11, the different buildings of the temple. The walls of the holy place and of the most holy, of the porch and of the upper chambers, were overlaid with gold (cf. Ch2 3:4-6, Ch2 3:8-9), and probably only the inner walls of the side buildings. 1 Chronicles 29:5”