And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Solids. Septuagint, "pieces of gold "chrusous. Hebrew adarcnim, which Protestants render "drachms "(Haydock) after the Syriac Others think that the Darics, used in Persia, are meant, though they did not exist in David's time. Esdras might reduce the money to correspond with the coin with which his countrymen were then acquainted, 2 Esdras vii. 70. (Pelletier)
The Daric was equivalent to the golden sicle, which was only half the weight of one of silver, though this is not certain. (Calmet)
A solid was only the sixth part of an ounce, whereas the sicle weighed half an ounce, or four drachms.
Talents were always of the same weight, 125 Roman pounds. (Menochius)
