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John Gill's Exposition on Judges 8:26
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the weight of the golden earrings he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, etc.] Which, as Schcuchzer f179 computes, was eight hundred and ten ounces, five drachms, one scruple, and ten grains, of the weight of physicians; but as reckoned by Moatanus f180 amounted to eight hundred and fifty ounces, and were of the value of 6800 crowns of gold; and, according to Waserus f181, it amounted to 3400 Hungarian pieces of gold, and of their money at Zurich upwards of 15,413 pounds, and of our money 2,380 pounds: besides ornaments; such as were upon the necks of the camels, (<070821>Judges 8:21) for the same word is used here as there: and collars; the Targum renders it a crown, and Ben Melech says in the Arabic language the word signifies clear crystal; but Kimchi and Ben Gersom take them to be golden vessels, in which they put “stacte”, or some odoriferous liquor, and so were properly smelling bottles: and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian; which it seems was the colour that kings wore, as they now do; so Strabo f182 says of the kings of Arabia, that they are clothed in purple: and besides the chains that were about their camels’ necks; which seem to be different from the other ornaments about them, since another word is here used; now all these seem to have been what fell to his share, as the general of the army, and not what were given him by the people.
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