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26 I weighed the treasure as I gave it to them and found the totals to be as follows:

24 tons[a] of silver,
7,500 pounds[b] of silver articles,
7,500 pounds of gold,

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Footnotes

  1. 8:26a Hebrew 650 talents [22 metric tons].
  2. 8:26b Hebrew 100 talents [3,400 kilograms]; also in 8:26c.

This is a list of the items that were returned:

gold basins30
silver basins1,000
silver incense burners[a]29
10 gold bowls30
silver bowls410
other items1,000

11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought all of these along when the exiles went from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 The meaning of this Hebrew word is uncertain.

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