unto the treasure of the work] 1 Chron. 26. 20. one thousand drams of gold] Which amounts to twenty two thousand eight hundred seventy and five pound of our money. The dram is the eighth part of an ounce, and the ounce of gold is three pounds of our money: so that every dram of gold is seven shillings six pence of our money: And then sixty one thousand drams make up the sum above named. It was a Persian coyn of Darius, king of Persia, as the name Drakmon shews. See more in the notes on 1 Chronicles 29:7. five thousand pound of silver] Which are called mina’s, and each amounts to seven pound ten shillings of our money: which being too great a sum to put in oe piece of silver, was somtimes coyned in three pieces, one of twenty shekels, another of twenty five, and the third of fifteen shekels, Ezekiel 45:12. So each mina of silver was sixty shekels: Each shekel of silver was two shillings six pence, which being computed, produceth in our coyn thirty seven thousand and five hundred pound. See the notes on 1 Kings 10:17. The whole sum now given in gold and silver, comes to sixty thousand three hundred and seventy ive pound in our coyn.