1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Chronicles 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.

Six hundred sicles, etc. This was the price of the whole place on which the temple was afterwards built: but the price of the oxen was fifty sicles of silver, 2 Kings 24:24. (Challoner) --- Or the fifty sicles were given for the threshing-floor alone. (Calmet) (Du Hamel)