Three thousand talents of gold. — Comp. 1 Chronicles 22:14. The sum would be about £18,000,000 sterling.
Gold of Ophir. — Indian gold, from Abhîra, at the mouth of the Indus.
Seven thousand talents of refined silver. — About £2,800,000 sterling.
To overlay. — Strictly, to besmear (Isaiah 44:18).
The houses. — The chambers (1 Chronicles 28:11; see 2 Chronicles 3:4-9). The Syriac and Arabic have “a thousand thousand talents of gold,” and “twice a thousand thousand talents of silver.”