So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and (A)weighed out to him the money—seventeen shekels of silver.

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12 Then I said to them, “If it is [a]agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they (A)weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the (B)potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:12 good in your sight

If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

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39 Now (A)as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, (B)your life shall be for his life, or else you shall [a]pay a talent of silver.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 20:39 Lit. weigh

So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

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Why do you [a]spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 55:2 Lit. weigh out silver

28 Then (A)Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, (B)and sold him to the Ishmaelites for (C)twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.

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15 “My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred (A)shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.” 16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham (B)weighed out the silver for Ephron which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency of the merchants.

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