The writer and producer vastly underestimated the worth of a talent. In the Old Testament times, a talent weighed something like 75 pounds. The reward for reporting the location of Doug and Tony was 1,000 talents of silver, which would be about 75,000 pounds of silver, which would make the reward worth about $20,000,000.
When the General is reading the Bible passage from Joshua 6:25, he appears to be reading from the final pages of the Bible. Joshua is near the beginning of the Bible, not close to the end.