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The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Sicles. This weight seems enormous for each nail. Mariana supposes every nail weighed one sicle. But who will believe that only fifty were used? Hebrew “And the weight of the nails was fifty,” and so forth The Syr. and Arab. omit this verse entirely.—Chambers, or rather “the ceiling.”
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 50 shekels was about 0.5 kilograms or about 16 Troy ounces.
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