silver

But the former gouernours that had bene before me, were chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread, and wine, beside fourtie shekels of siluer, yea euen their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.

And some of the chiefe of the fathers gaue to the treasure of the worke twentie thousand drammes of golde, and two thousand and two hundred pound of siluer.

And that which the rest of the people gaue, was twentie thousand drammes of gold, and two thousand pound of siluer, and threescore and seuen priests garments.

Where were white, greene and blew hangings, fastened with cords of fine linnen, and purple, to siluer rings, and pillers of marble: the beds were of gold and siluer, vpon a pauement of red, and blewe, and white, and blacke marble.

1611 marginal noteOr, violet.

1611 marginal noteOr, of porphyre, and marble, and alabaster, and stone of blew colour.

If it please the king, let it be written, that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer to the handes of those that haue the charge of the businesse, to bring it into the kings treasuries.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to destroy them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. weigh.

And the king saide vnto Haman, The siluer is giuen to thee, the people also, to doe with them, as it seemeth good to thee.

Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:

Yea the Almightie shall bee thy defence, and thou shalt haue plenty of siluer.

1611 marginal noteOr, gold.

1611 marginal noteHeb. siluer of strength.

Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay:

He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer.