an hundred talents of silver Estimating the shekel at
2s
6d. and the talent, being
3000 shekels (see
Exodus 38:25,26 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents...
) at
375l., one hundred talents would amount to
37,500l; which divided among
100,000 men, quotes only
7s
6d; hence we may suppose, that this was only an earnest of their pay, or that they expected to be enriched by the plunder of the Edomites.