When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
A goodly Babylonian garment, х 'aderet (H155) Shin`aar (H8152)] - a mantle of Shinar. The plain of Shinar was in early times celebrated for its gorgeous robes, which were of brilliant and various colours, generally arranged in figured patterns, probably resembling those of modern Turkish carpets; and the colours were either interwoven in the loom or embroidered with the needle (see Rawlinson's 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 1:, p. 125). The robe which Achan had secreted was probably ornamented with idolatrous figures, which made it an "accursed thing."
Two hundred shekels of silver - equivalent to 22 British pounds, 10 shillings sterling according to the old Mosaic shekel; or the half of that sum, reckoning by the common shekel (see curious decree of the time of Diocletian, in which the value of several articles of textile manufacture from Babylon is specified, 'Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 537, note).
A wedge of gold - literally, an ingot or bar in the shape of a tongue: perhaps the golden statuette of an idol (cf. Deuteronomy 7:25-26; Isaiah 30:22).