²⁵ and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, the vessels, as well as the contribution collected for the house of our God by the king, his counselors, his lords, in conjunction with what all Israel had offered. ²⁶ I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents^[a] of silver, silver articles worth one hundred talents,^[b] one hundred talents^[c] of gold, ²⁷ twenty gold bowls worth a thousand darics,^[d] and two vessels of fine shining bronze, precious as gold.