Ezra 8:27 BSB — MannaFest

Ezra 8:27

20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

BSB

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ASV

and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

KJV

Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams - Not of a thousand drams (i. e., darics) each, but worth altogether a thousand darics. As the value of the daric was about 22 shillings of British money, each basin, or saucer, would have been worth (apart from the fashioning) 55 British pounds. Of fine copper - The word translated “fine,” which occurs here only, is thought to mean either “yellow” or “glittering” (see the margin).

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּכְפֹרֵ֤י	u.khe.fo.Rei	and bowls of	H3713 →
זָהָב֙	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
עֶשְׂרִ֔ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
לַאֲדַרְכֹנִ֖ים	la.'a.dar.kho.Nim	of darics	H150 →
אָ֑לֶף	'A.lef	a thousand	H505 →
וּכְלֵ֨י	u.khe.Lei	and vessels of	H3627 →
נְחֹ֜שֶׁת	ne.Cho.shet	bronze	H5178 →
מֻצְהָ֤ב	mutz.Hav	gleaming	H6668 →
טוֹבָה֙	to.Vah	fine	H2896 →
שְׁנַ֔יִם	she.Na.yim	two	H8147 →
חֲמוּדֹ֖ת	cha.mu.Dot	precious	H2530 →
כַּזָּהָֽב׃	ka.za.Hav	like <the> gold	H2091 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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Lamentations 4:2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
leads to
- Isaiah 30:14
  It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a…
- Romans 9:21–23
  Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
- Jeremiah 19:11
  and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again…
- 2 Timothy 2:20
  A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
- 2 Corinthians 4:7
  Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

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