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25 and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered. 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,[a] one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold, 27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics;[b] and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:26 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces
  2. 8:27 a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.