Ezra 1:9

Translations

Modern

This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,

Traditional

And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

Literal

And these are their numbers: Gold dishes, thirty; silver dishes, a thousand; knives, nine and twenty;

Latin

Et hic est numerus eorum: phialæ aureæ triginta, phialæ argenteæ mille, cultri viginti novem, scyphi aurei triginta,

Original

Hebrew

English

This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,

Notes

Ezra 1:9–11

5,400 gold and silver articles: The numbers listed only total 2,499 items. A similar account in the apocryphal book 1 Esdras 2:13–15 lists 5,469 items, while a list by the Jewish historian Josephus in Antiquities 11.15 lists 5,220 objects. Ezra’s shorter list shows the types of items included but does not list every item. Keeping track of consecrated utensils helped prevent confusion with pagan utensils used for worshiping other gods.

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2 Chronicles 4:11
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1 Kings 7:50
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2 Chronicles 24:14
When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.
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…20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.
2 Chronicles 4:21–22
…the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;
Matthew 14:8
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His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

Glossary

Book of Ezra Cyrus Cylinder First Book of Esdras History of Israel Jerusalem Judaism Postexilic Period Sheshbazzar Temple

Topics

Church and State: State Favorable to Religion: Cyrus, in his Proclamation to Restore the Temple at Jerusalem Israel, Prophecies Concerning: Captivity of Cyrus Directs the Rebuilding of the Temple Knife of the Temple, Returned from Babylon Liberality: Cyrus Temple: Solomon's: Restoration of, Ordered by Cyrus the Second Temple: Cyrus: Gave the Vessels of the First Temple For Zerubbabel: Leads the Emancipated Jews Back from Babylon

Ezra 1:9

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