Footnote 2 – Has the U.S. Geological Survey Found King Solomon’s Gold Mines?

One talent equals 3000 shekels (see Exodus 38:25–26) and one common shekel equals .408 ounces. See R. B. Y. Scott, “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 22, pp. 22–40 (1959).