And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Ornaments - crescent-like plates of gold suspended from the necks, or placed on the breasts, of the camels.
Collars - necklaces of gold or pearl.
Purple - a royal colour. The ancient as well as modern Arabs adorned the necks, breasts, and legs of their riding animals with sumptuous housing. See description of a similar dress in the ancient Persian (Xenophon, 'Cyrus,' lib. 1:, 100: 3; Quintus Curtius, lib. 3:, 100: 3), and in Assyrian kings (Layard, 'Nineveh and its Remains,'
ii., p. 322).