Ezra 1:9
in Ezra 1This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives,
KJV
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
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This verse in Ezra 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd this is their number: thirty golden bowls, etc. Different types of vessels signify different persons or operations of the faithful. Finally, we read in the Apocalypse that the twenty-four elders had golden bowls full of incense (Rev. 5); and the Scripture explains: These are …
This site's exposition
thirty chargers of gold
on Ezra 1:9-11
The inventory itemizes gold chargers, silver chargers, knives, basons and other vessels before the record totals five thousand four hundred pieces of gold and silver in all. The individual numbers listed do not sum to the stated total in the Hebrew text as it stands, a detail the commentators note without pretending to settle it. Sheshbazzar brings up every vessel with the exiles who come from Babylon to Jerusalem, the chapter closing where it began, a king's decree turned into a counted, carried, delivered inheritance.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
1 , &c.), and which perhaps was shown to him by those about him. His name (some say) in the Persian language signifies the sun, for he brought light and healing to the church of God, and was an eminent type of Christ the Sun of righteousness. Some was that his name signifies a father, and Christ is the everlasting Father.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Chargers - The word in the original thus translated occurs only in this passage. Its meaning is doubtful. Some derive it from a Hebrew root, “to hollow out,” and translate “cup” or “vessel.” Knives - This is another doubtful word, only used here. The etymology points to some employment of basket-work.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֖לֶּה | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| מִסְפָּרָ֑ם | misparam | [were] number their | H4557 → | 134 times |
| אֲגַרְטְלֵ֨י | ʾagartelei | basins of | H105 → | |
| זָהָ֜ב | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| שְׁלֹשִׁ֗ים | sheloshim | thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| אֲגַרְטְלֵי־ | ʾagartelei- | basins of | H105 → | |
| כֶ֙סֶף֙ | khesef | silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
| אָ֔לֶף | ʾalef | one thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
| מַחֲלָפִ֖ים | machalafim | knives | H4252 → | |
| תִּשְׁעָ֥ה | tishah | nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ ס | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
וְאֵ֖לֶּהand these
veelehH428 →746 times
מִסְפָּרָ֑ם[were] number their
misparamH4557 →134 times
אֲגַרְטְלֵ֨יbasins of
ʾagarteleiH105 →
זָהָ֜בgold
zahavH2091 →389 times
שְׁלֹשִׁ֗יםthirty
sheloshimH7970 →172 times
אֲגַרְטְלֵי־basins of
ʾagartelei-H105 →
כֶ֙סֶף֙silver
khesefH3701 →403 times
אָ֔לֶףone thousand
ʾalefH505 →505 times
מַחֲלָפִ֖יםknives
machalafimH4252 →
תִּשְׁעָ֥הnine
tishahH8672 →58 times
וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ סand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 14:8Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
it leads to
- Proverbs 29:10
Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.
- Mark 6:24
Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
- 1 Kings 19:2
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those…
- Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
- 1 Kings 18:13
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them…
- Proverbs 29:10
Through
1 Kings 7:50the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors…
it leads to
- Exodus 25:29
You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
- Leviticus 16:12
Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- Exodus 27:3
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- Exodus 25:29
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezra
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).