Thematic Bible: Used to weigh silver
Thematic Bible
Shekel » Used to weigh silver
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, 200 silver shekels, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the money under the cloak.”
Verse Concepts
The weight of the gold earrings he requested was about 43 pounds of gold, in addition to the crescent ornaments and ear pendants, the purple garments on the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.
Verse Concepts
He said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about-here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you." Then his mother said, "My son, you are blessed by the Lord!" He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, "I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son's benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver."
Related Topics
- Allurements Of Sin
- Bad Decision Making Examples
- Beautiful
- Beauty, In Artefacts
- Chains
- Colors, Purple
- Concealment, Of Sin
- Coveting, prohibition of
- Covetousness, Example Of
- Covetousness, Results In