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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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an hundred talents of silver: Estimating the shekel at 2s. 6d., and the talent, being 3,000 shekels (see Exo 38:25, Exo 38:26), at 375, one hundred talents would amount to 37,500.; which, divided among 100,000 men, quotes only 7s. 6d.; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites. 2 Chronicles 25:7
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