| Barnes' Notes on the Bible On the shekel and the gerah, see Exodus 30:13, note; Exodus 38:24, note.
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleShekel of the sanctuary - A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary to try and regulate all the weights in the land by. See Genesis 20:16; Genesis 23:15.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary,.... The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel; which the Targum of Jonathan calls "meahs" or "oboli", one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland (i) has calculated: see Ezekiel 45:12. (i) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentAll valuations were to be made according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Geneva Study BibleAnd all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Wesley's Notes 27:25 The shekel - About 2s. 6d.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary27:14-25 Our houses, lands, cattle, and all our substance, must be used to the glory of God. It is acceptable to him that a portion be given to support his worship, and to promote his cause. But God would not approve such a degree of zeal as ruined a man's family. | 
