Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
Note That is, Babylonia
Note 200 shekels is approximately 5 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of silver.
Note 50 shekels is approximately 1.26 pounds or 569.8 grams of gold.
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.
Note wedge: Heb. tongue
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
Note A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I saw
- Genesis 3:6; Genesis 6:2; 2 Samuel 11:2; Job 31:1; Psalm 119:37; Proverbs 23:31; Proverbs 28:22; Matthew 5:28, 29; 1 John 2:15, 16
- Joshua 7:21
- Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted.
- Genesis 10:10
- wedge
- Heb. tongue. I coveted.
- Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 7:25; 1 Kings 21:1, 2; 2 Kings 5:20–27; Habakkuk 2:9; Luke 12:15; Romans 7:7, 8; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Timothy 6:9, 10; Hebrews 13:5; 2 Peter 2:15
- took them
- Proverbs 4:23; Micah 2:1, 2; James 1:15
- they are hid
- 2 Samuel 11:6–17; 2 Kings 5:24, 25; Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 29:15; Luke 12:2