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The Darby Translation

Ezra 1:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Knife;   Liberality;   Temple;   Zerubbabel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Knives;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Charger;   Jerusalem;   Knife;   Temple, Solomon's;   Temple, the Second;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Charger;   Cyrus;   Ezra, the Book of;   Shewbread;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Knife;   Pan;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra, Book of;   Knife;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Charger;   Cyrus;   Zerubbabel ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cyrus;   Medes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apocrypha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Charger;   Esdras, the First Book of;   Knife;   Platter;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avesta;   Charger;   Esdras, Books of;   Persia;   Saadia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This was the inventory:
Hebrew Names Version
This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
King James Version
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
English Standard Version
And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,
New Century Version
He listed thirty gold dishes, one thousand silver dishes, twenty-nine pans,
New English Translation
The inventory of these items was as follows: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 silver utensils,
Amplified Bible
And they counted: 30 dishes (basins) of gold, 1,000 dishes of silver, 29 duplicates;
New American Standard Bible
Now this was their number: thirty gold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty nine duplicates;
World English Bible
This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And this is the nomber of them, thirtie basins of golde, a thousand basins of siluer, nine and twentie kniues,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates;
Berean Standard Bible
This was the inventory: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 silver utensils,
Contemporary English Version
Included among them were: 30 large gold dishes; 1,000 large silver dishes; 29 other dishes; 30 gold bowls; 410 silver bowls; and 1,000 other articles.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Easy-to-Read Version
This is what Mithredath brought out of the Lord's Temple: 30 gold dishes, 1000 silver dishes, 29 knives and pans,
George Lamsa Translation
And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine vestments,
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
Now these were the inventories: thirty gold metal dishes, one thousand silver metal dishes, twenty-nine vessels,
Literal Translation
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, twenty one knives,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And this is the nombre of them: thirtye basens of golde, and a thousande basens of syluer, and nyne and twentye knyues,
American Standard Version
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Bible in Basic English
And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, twentie and nine kniues:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives;
King James Version (1611)
And this is the number of them: thirtie chargers of golde, a thousand chargers of siluer, nine and twentie kniues:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this is their number: thirty gold basons, and a thousand silver basons, nine and twenty changes, thirty golden goblets,
English Revised Version
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this is the noumbre of tho vessels; goldun violis, thritti; siluerne viols, a thousynde; `grete knyues, nyne and twenti; goldun cuppis, thritti; siluerne cuppis,
Update Bible Version
And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty altered,
Webster's Bible Translation
And this [is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
New King James Version
This is the number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives,
New Living Translation
This is a list of the items that were returned:
gold basins 30
silver basins 1,000
silver incense burners 29
New Life Bible
This was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 other dishes,
New Revised Standard
And this was the inventory: gold basins, thirty; silver basins, one thousand; knives, twenty-nine;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, these, were the numbers of them, - basins of gold, thirty, basins of silver, a thousand, knives, twenty-nine;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,
Revised Standard Version
And this was the number of them: a thousand basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine censers,
Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] their number: dishes of gold thirty, dishes of silver a thousand, knives nine and twenty,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates;

Contextual Overview

5 And the chief fathers of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests, and the Levites, even all those whose spirit God had stirred, to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem. 6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered. 7 And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem and had put in the house of his god. 8 And Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine-and-twenty knives, 10 thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a thousand. 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. The whole did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chargers of gold: Numbers 7:13, Numbers 7:19-89, 1 Kings 7:50, 2 Chronicles 4:8, 2 Chronicles 4:11, 2 Chronicles 4:21, 2 Chronicles 4:22, 2 Chronicles 24:14, Matthew 14:8

nine: Matthew 10:29-31

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:29 - the 2 Kings 12:13 - bowls 2 Kings 25:15 - and such things

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.
Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and there was morning—a second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry [land] appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in them, on the earth. And it was so.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this is the number of them,.... Of the vessels delivered, as follows:

thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver; these, according to Ben Melech, were vessels in which water was put to wash hands in; but rather they were, as Aben Ezra observes from the Jerusalem Talmud r, vessels in which they gathered the blood of lambs and bullocks slain for sacrifices:

nine and twenty knives; which, because the handles of them were of gold or silver, were valuable, and might be very large knives, and what the priests used in slaying and cutting up the sacrifices.

r T. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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