O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
All this store that we have prepared. We shall give in this table only the amount of gold and silver; and taking the talent of gold as worth 5,475 British pounds sterling(the talent being 125 lbs. in weight), the value of the gold will be about 73 shillings per oz. The talent of silver is given at 342 British pounds sterling, 3 shillings, 9d., or 4 shillings 4 1/2d. per oz. The total amount of the contributions will be: This amount so far exceeds not only every Oriental collection on record, but even the bounds of probability, that it is very generally allowed that either there is a corruption of the text in 1 Chronicles 22:14, or that the reckoning of the historian was by the Babylonian, which was only a half, or the Syrian, which was only a fifth part of the Hebrew, talent. This would bring the Scripture account more into accordance with the statements of Josephus, as well as within the range of credibility.