Bible Verses About Talent

The silver given by the community weighed 100 talents 1,775 shekels [6,650 pounds], using the sanctuary shekel.

This was a beka per person, that is, half a shekel [one-fifth of an ounce], using the sanctuary shekel, for everyone twenty years old or older counted in the census, 603,550 men.

(Hiram had sent the king four tons of gold.)

They went to Ofir and took from there gold, fourteen tons of it, which they brought back to King Shlomo.

Then she gave the king four tons of gold, a huge amount of spices, and precious stones; never again did there arrive such an abundance of spices as those the queen of Sh'va gave to King Shlomo.

The weight of the gold Shlomo received annually came to twenty-two tons of gold,

Then Kefa came up and said to him, "Rabbi, how often can my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven times?"

"No, not seven times," answered Yeshua, "but seventy times seven!

Because of this, the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared with a king who decided to settle accounts with his deputies.

Right away they brought forward a man who owed him many millions;

and since he couldn't pay, his master ordered that he, his wife, his children and all his possessions be sold to pay the debt.

But the servant fell down before him. `Be patient with me,' he begged, `and I will pay back everything.'

So out of pity for him, the master let him go and forgave the debt.

"But as that servant was leaving, he came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him some tiny sum. He grabbed him and began to choke him, crying, `Pay back what you owe me!'

His fellow servant fell before him and begged, `Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'

But he refused; instead, he had him thrown in jail until he should repay the debt.

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed; and they went and told their master every thing that had taken place.

Then the master summoned his servant and said, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt just because you begged me to do it.

Shouldn't you have had pity on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

And in anger his master turned him over to the jailers for punishment until he paid back everything he owed.

This is how my heavenly Father will treat you, unless you each forgive your brother from your hearts."

"For it will be like a man about to leave home for awhile, who entrusted his possessions to his servants.

To one he gave five talents [equivalent to a hundred years' wages]; to another, two talents; and to another, one talent -- to each according to his ability. Then he left.

The one who had received five talents immediately went out, invested it and earned another five.

Similarly, the one given two earned another two.