Quotes about Talents
Every leader is a package of God-given gifts and God-assigned limits. It is dangerous to focus on the one without humbly remembering the other.
- Paul David Tripp
All the gold from the wave offering used for the work on the sanctuary totaled 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
- Exodus 38:24
The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
- Exodus 38:25
The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
- Exodus 38:27
The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
- Exodus 38:29
And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
- 1 Kings 9:14
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
- 1 Kings 9:28
The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
- 1 Kings 10:14
But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
- 2 Kings 5:23
So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 8:18
He also hired 100,000 mighty warriors from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
- 2 Chronicles 25:6
And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
- 2 Chronicles 36:3