User blog comment:PitaKang/Funday Monday 1: How much did Solomon's Temple cost?/@comment-32656-20130417124852/@comment-32656-20130425125434

Says right on the first one to take it with a proverbial grain of salt.

Second one notes that it varied greatly, and was exaggerated. Not two measurements were the same - we have yet to determine what it really was.

Third one notes that it's one of several, and that many different measurements were used for a talent, even depending on the product.

Last one directly contradicts 75 pounds. Actually indicates 60 pounds.

Pita, like many things with the Bible, someone translated a word wrong somewhere. For instance, a lot of people - including many of those same websites - insist that the Jews were slaves (usually accompanied by something like "They built the Pyramids"). Yet, this is not even remotely accurate - someone took the word for "servant" to mean "slave." Everyone is Egypt was technically the "servant" of the pharaoh - it does not mean "slave." Physical evidence has confirmed this, too.

Same idea applies to the talent.