Ezra 1:9

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

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KJV

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

ASV

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

YLT

And this is their number: dishes of gold thirty, dishes of silver a thousand, knives nine and twenty,

DBT

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

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And 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 …

Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735patristic

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And this is the number of them,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Sheshbazzar - Zerubbabel; the Chaldeans called him Sheshbazzar, that is, Joy in tribulation, but among his own people he was called Zerubbabel, a stranger in Babylon. So he looked upon himself, tho' (Josephus says) he was captain of the life- guard.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Matthew 10:29–31
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
2 Chronicles 4:21–22
the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;
Matthew 14:8
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
Numbers 7:19–89
The offering he presented 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;
1 Kings 7:50
the 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 of the main hall of the temple.
2 Chronicles 24:14
When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada to make with it the 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.
Numbers 7:13
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;
2 Chronicles 4:8
Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
Ezra 8:27
20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.
2 Chronicles 4:11
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
2 Kings 12:13
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 25:15
The captain of the guard also took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.

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Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Ezra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Ezra (traditional); the book uses first-person narrative in chs. 7–10
Date: Events 538–458 BC; compilation c. mid-5th century BC

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Matthew 14:8
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
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…
Through
1 Kings 7:50
the 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…
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.

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