Jueces 8:26

26 Todos los aretes de oro pesaron unos diecinueve kilos,
sin contar los ornamentos reales ni los pendientes ni la ropa de púrpura usada por los reyes de Madián, ni las cadenas que sus camellos llevaban en el cuello.

Jueces 8:26 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 8:26

And the weight of the golden earrings he requested was
one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold
Which, as Schcuchzer ^F5 computes, was eight hundred and ten ounces, five drachms, one scruple, and ten grains, of the weight of physicians; but as reckoned by Moatanus ^F6 amounted to eight hundred and fifty ounces, and were of the value of 6800 crowns of gold; and, according to Waserus ^F7, it amounted to 3400 Hungarian pieces of gold, and of their money at Zurich upwards of 15,413 pounds, and of our money 2,380 pounds:

besides ornaments;
such as were upon the necks of the camels, ( Judges 8:21 ) for the same word is used here as there:

and collars;
the Targum renders it a crown, and Ben Melech says in the Arabic language the word signifies clear crystal; but Kimchi and Ben Gersom take them to be golden vessels, in which they put "stacte", or some odoriferous liquor, and so were properly smelling bottles:

and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian;
which it seems was the colour that kings wore, as they now do; so Strabo ^F8 says of the kings of Arabia, that they are clothed in purple:

and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks;
which seem to be different from the other ornaments about them, since another word is here used; now all these seem to have been what fell to his share, as the general of the army, and not what were given him by the people.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Physica Sacra, vol. 3. p. 468.
F6 Tubal Cain, p. 15.
F7 De Numis. Heb. l. 2. c. 10.
F8 Geograph. l. 16. p. 539.

Jueces 8:26 In-Context

24 Sin embargo, tengo una petición que hacerles: que cada uno de ustedes me dé un arete del botín que recogieron de sus enemigos caídos.
(Como los enemigos eran ismaelitas, todos usaban aretes de oro).

25 —¡Con todo gusto! —le contestaron.
Así que extendieron un manto, y cada uno de ellos echó un arete de oro que había recogido del botín.

26 Todos los aretes de oro pesaron unos diecinueve kilos,
sin contar los ornamentos reales ni los pendientes ni la ropa de púrpura usada por los reyes de Madián, ni las cadenas que sus camellos llevaban en el cuello.

27 Entonces Gedeón hizo un efod sagrado con el oro y lo puso en Ofra, su pueblo natal. Pero pronto todos los israelitas se prostituyeron al rendir culto a ese efod, el cual se convirtió en una trampa para Gedeón y su familia.

28 Esa es la historia de cómo el pueblo de Israel derrotó a Madián, y este nunca se recuperó. Y hubo paz en la tierra durante el resto de la vida de Gedeón, unos cuarenta años más.