The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base.
Gold came freely, silver by tax; both ways serve God's house if done without partiality. The workers were faithful, the people liberal, and their example in giving and honest dealing ought to move us yet. The foundation itself was silver, a fit emblem that the Lord's work rests on what is weighed, measured, and accounted for.
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Commenting on Exodus 38:21-31
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels. Which, according to Paris weight, were 6177 pounds, ten ounces, two drachms, and sixty four grains (w): this might be had from the neighbouring mountains of Arabia, where it is said (x) the metals of brass and iron were first dug. (w) Vid. Scheuchzer, ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 2. p.
The census counted six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty males at half a shekel each, yielding exactly one hundred talents and seventeen hundred seventy five shekels, proof itself that a talent holds three thousand shekels. One talent cast each socket; the remainder bought hooks, capitals, and the silver rods binding the pillars of the court.
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Commenting on Exodus 38:25-28