One Million Talents of Silver Today

The Value of One Million Talents of Silver today is $36,991,362,973 (U.S. dollars).  

The Math / Science

The Biblical weight of a talent is equal to approximately 34 kilograms.  To compute the current value of silver, one uses the following equation:

        Silver Value = weight • %pure • Silver SPOT PRICE

where:

• Silver Value = The current value of silver content
• weight = The weight of silver item
• %pure = Percent of purity of the silver 
• Silver SPOT PRICE = The current market value of pure gold bullion.

Therefore, the Value of One Million Talents of silver  = 1,000,000  • 34 kilograms • 100% •  Silver SPOT PRICE TODAY

A Talent of Gold Today

Jesus told a parable of three servants that were given talents, presumably of gold.  The weight of a talent is 34 kg.  Using the current spot price of gold, which is $3125.5, you can see the value of talents today.  The prices are updated every two minutes and given in U.S. dollars.

• One Talent of Gold: $3,416,564
• Two Talents of Gold: $6,833,127
• Five Talents of Gold: $17,082,817
• Ten Talents of Gold today: $34,165,634
• One Hundred and Twenty Talents of Gold: $409,987,607
  • 1 Kings 10:10 (Queen of Sheba's gift of gold to Solomon)
• Six Hundred and Sixty Six Talents (666) of Gold: $2,275,431,215 
  • 1 Kings 10:14 (Solomon's Annual Income)
• One hundred thousand (100,000) talents of Gold today: $341,656,338,561 
  • David's funding of Solomon's Temple in 1 Chronicles 22:14
• One million talents (1,000,000) of SILVER today: $36,991,362,973
  • David's funding of Solomon's Temple in 1 Chronicles 22:14