The Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 8:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Six hundred and fifty talents of silver, according to Mr. Peele's estimate of the talent, would be nearly a quarter of a million of our money. The annual revenue of Persia was about three and a half millions (Herod; 3.

95). Of gold an hundred talents. Rather more than a million of our money.

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