From Nave’s Topical Bible
Shekel
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 20Passages listed
- 12Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A weight, equal to twenty gerahsExodus 30:13Numbers 3:47Ezekiel 45:12
- Used to weigh silverJoshua 7:21Judges 8:26Judges 17:2Judges 17:3
- Fractions of, used in currencyExodus 30:131 Samuel 9:8Nehemiah 10:32
- Used to weigh
- GoldGenesis 24:22Numbers 7:14Numbers 7:20–86Joshua 7:211 Kings 10:16
- CinnamonExodus 30:23
- Hair2 Samuel 14:26
- Iron1 Samuel 17:7
- MyrrhExodus 30:23
- RationsEzekiel 4:10
- Fines paid inDeuteronomy 22:19Deuteronomy 22:29
- Fees paid in1 Samuel 9:8
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- Sanctuary revenues paid inExodus 30:13Nehemiah 10:32
- Of different standards
- Of the sanctuaryExodus 30:13
- Of the king' s weight2 Samuel 14:26
- CorruptedAmos 8:5
The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 24:22
And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Commentary on Genesis 24:221 voice
For he also shows that he is familiar with virtues, so that each person may walk in the innocence of their heart, not mingling with earthly vices, and may tread an irreproachable path with an untainted mind, and may not open any place within themselves to corruption. Such was Isaac, as he awaited the arrival of Rebecca, preparing himself for spiritual union.
Ambrose of Milan· On Isaac and the Soul, 397Patristic
- Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Commentary on Exodus 30:131 voice
This they shall give, everyone that passeth among them that are numbered,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 30:23
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
Commentary on Exodus 30:231 voice
Take thou also unto thee principal spices,.... To make the anointing oil with, and are as follow: of pure myrrh five hundred shekels; it is strange that Saadiah, and so Maimonides (f), should take this for musk, which comes from a beast, and is confuted by Aben Ezra from Son 5:1 from whence it plainly appears to be what comes from a tree; and the word "mor", here used, gives the tree the name of myrrh almost in all languages.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 3:47
you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Commentary on Numbers 3:471 voice
Thou shall even take five shekels apiece the poll,.... Or head; every firstborn, or his parent for him, was bound to pay five shekels, which were about eleven or twelve shillings of our money, and which was afterwards settled as the price of such a redemption, Num 18:16, after the shekel of the sanctuary shall thou take them; being full weight according to the standard there kept: the shekel is twenty gerahs; See Gill on Lev 27:25.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 7:14
one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
Commentary on Numbers 7:141 voice
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, &c.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 7:20–86
one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
- Deuteronomy 22:19
They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:191 voice
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 22:29
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
Commentary on Joshua 7:212 voices
But human habits have so long applied themselves to this admiration of money that no one is thought worthy of honor unless he is rich. This is no new habit. No, this vice (and that makes the matter worse) grew long years ago in human hearts. When the city of Jericho fell at the sound of the priests' trumpets and Joshua the son of Nun gained the victory, he knew that the valor of the people was weakened through love of money and desire for gold.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Duties of the Clergy 2.26.129, 397Patristic
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 8:26
The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
Commentary on Judges 8:261 voice
And the weight of the golden earrings he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 17:2
said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
Commentary on Judges 17:21 voice
And he said unto his mother,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 17:3
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
Commentary on Judges 17:31 voice
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Samuel 9:8
The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
Commentary on 1 Samuel 9:81 voice
Let the servant therefore say: "Let us go there, if perhaps he may show us about our way." But let Saul look upon himself as empty—because the Holy Spirit, while he instructs the senses of those living uprightly, makes them now bold, now timid. Bold indeed, so that they may venture forth; timid, lest they become proud. He impels them to seek what is necessary; he holds them back, lest by presuming too much they fall into the vice of rashness.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 4, 604Patristic
- 1 Samuel 17:7
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 17:71 voice
And his armor-bearer went before him. The armor-bearer precedes Goliath as he goes out against Israel, just as the weapons of iniquity and the examples of the wicked precede and assist the devil as he tries to deceive the faithful.
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
- 2 Samuel 14:26
And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:261 voice
And when he polled his head,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 10:16
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
Commentary on 1 Kings 10:161 voice
And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,.... Which were a larger sort of shields, which covered the whole body; and these were made of gold beaten with the hammer, or drawn into plates, being melted like wax; so the Poeni or Carthaginians made shields of gold (m): six hundred shekels of gold went to one target; which is to be understood not of the weight, but of the price or value of them, which amounted to four hundred and fifty pounds of our money; so Brerewood (n). (m) Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. 3. (n) Ut supra.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed