The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-06-11
SILVER IN THE BIBLE.
Tho White Metal Was in Good Stand
ing in the Days Of Abraham and
the Patriarchs OF Israel.


| the Patriarchs OF Israel.
Tho Augusta Chronicle SAYS there
arc many arguments brought forward
in the money question that arc argu-
ments only by courtesy, or perhaps by
way of illustration. We have seen
| gold men argue that silver had only 1,
secondary place and use in the Bible,
and had through all history been re-
| ghrded as an inferior metal TO gold.
That does not seem to be incompatible
with tho claims Of silver men to-day,
however, as they only rate silver at is
to of gold. But tho search for the
references to gold or silver in tho Bible
may have the beneficial effect Of MAX
ing some men read the Bible who were
before strangers to it. We quote be-
low somo OF the results OF searching
tho Scripture for silver quotations
which we find in the Nashville Sun.
We do not cite them as conclusive cvi-
dence in favor Of the FREQ and unlimit-
cd coinage Of silver at l6 to |, but Sim
ply as proof Of the fact that silver has
been in good standing as money metal
to the time whereof tho memory Of
man runncth not to tho contrary, and
as u matter Of curious interest.
Gen. Xiii. l6: And Abraham hurk-
encd unto Ephron; and Abraham
weighed TO EphrOn the silver, which
nc had named in the audience of the
sons Of Hcth, four hundred shekcls of
silver, current money with tho NOR
chant.
Gen. xxxvii 2S: Then thcro passed
by Midianites mcrchantmcn and they
drew and lifted up Joseph out Of the
pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces OF silver; and they
brought Joseph into Egypt.
Con. xiv. %: 70 all Of them he gavo
each man changes Of raimcnt but to
benjamin he gave five hundred pieces
of silver, and five changes Of raimcnt.
Joshua vii. u, ~, n: When | saw
among the spOils d g0odly Bubylonish
garment, and two hundred shckcis Of
silver, and a wedge Of gold fifty shok els
weight, then coveted them, and took
them and behold, they are hid in the
earth in the middle OF my tent, and the
silver under it. So Joshua sent his mes
scngcrs, and they ran unto tho tent :;
and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and
the silver under it, and Joshua, and all
Israel with him, took Achan, the son Of
Ierah, and the garments, and the
wedge OF gold, aud his sons, and his
daughters, and his oxen, and his asses,
and his sheep, and his tent, and all that
he had, and they brought them unto
the valley OF Achor.
Judges tx. 4: And they gave him
three-ScOrc and ten pieces Of silver out
OF the house OF l5aal- borith, whcrcwith
Abimelcch hired vain aud light persons
which followed him.
Judges xvi. . And the lords of the
Phillistincs came up unto her and said
unto her: Enticc him, and sec wherein
his great strength ,licth, aud by what
means we may prevail against him,
that we may bind him to aillict him,
and we will give thee, every one Of us,
eleven hundred pieces Of silver.
Judges xvii. ,, 3, 1 And he said un.
TO his his mother, the eleven hundred
shekclS OF silver that were taken from
thee, about which thou curscdst, and
spakcst of in mine ears, behold the sill
yer is with me; | took it. And his
| mother said, Blessed be thou OF the
| Lord, my son. And when he had re
stored the eleven hundred shekels o
silver to his mother, his mother said
| | had wholly dedicated the silver unto
the Lord from my hand for my son, tC
make q craven image and a molten
| image: now therefore restore it unto
| thee. Yet he restored tho money unto
| his mother; and his mother took two
hundred shekels OF silver and gave
them to the founder, who made there
Of u craven image and molten image:
and they were in the house OF Micah.
Deuteronomy viii. l3: And when thy
herds and thy llocks multiply, and thy
silver and thy gold is multiplied, and
all that thou hast is multiplied.