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Ezra 1:11

All together, there were 5400 things made from gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought them all with him when the prisoners left Babylon and went back to Jerusalem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Liberality;   Sheshbazzar;   Temple;   Zerubbabel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Zerubbabel or Zorobabel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Sheshbazzar;   Temple, Solomon's;   Temple, the Second;   Zerubbabel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Ezra, the Book of;   Sheshbazzar;   Shewbread;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra, Book of;   Sheshbazzar;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Sheshbazzar ;   Zerubbabel ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cyrus;   Medes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apocrypha;   Captivity;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sheshbazzar;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zerubbabel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esdras, the First Book of;   Shenazzar;   Sheshbazzar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avesta;   Esdras, Books of;   Persia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The gold and silver articles totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought all of them when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbatztzer bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Bavel to Yerushalayim.
King James Version
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
New Century Version
There was a total of fifty-four hundred pieces of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these things along when the captives went from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New English Translation
All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
All the articles of gold and of silver totaled 5,400. All these Sheshbazzar [the governor] brought up with the exiles who went from Babylon up to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
All the articles of gold and silver totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
World English Bible
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand & foure hundreth. Sheshbazzar brought vp all with them of the captiuitie that came vp from Babel to Ierusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Contemporary English Version
Altogether, there were 5,400 gold and silver dishes, bowls, and other articles. Sheshbazzar took them with him when he and the others returned to Jerusalem from Babylonia.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshmazzar bring up with the men of the captivity that were returned from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
All of the objects of gold and silver metal were five thousand four hundred. All this Sheshbazzar brought up along with the exiles from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
All the vessels of gold and of silver (five thousand and four hundred) Sheshbazzar made to go up, all, when the exiled were caused to go up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So that all the vessels both of golde and syluer, were fyue thousande and foure hundreth. Se?bazar broughte them all vp, with them that came vp out of the captiuyte off Babilon vnto Ierusalem.
American Standard Version
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Al the vessels of golde and siluer were fiue thousand and foure hundred: All these did Sesbazer cary away with them that came vp out of the captiuitie of Babylon, vnto Hierusalem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
All the vessels of golde and of siluer, were fiue thousand and foure hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring vp with them of the captiuitie, that were brought vp from Babylon vnto Ierusalem.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, even all that went up with Sasabasar from the place of transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
alle the vessels of gold and siluere weren fyue thousynde foure hundrid. Sasabazar took alle vessels, with hem that stieden fro the transmygracioun of Babiloyne, in to Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar had brought up, when those of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring with [them of] the captivity that were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New King James Version
All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought all of these along when the exiles went from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New Life Bible
There were 5,400 objects of gold and silver in all. Sheshbazzar brought all of them back when the people who had been taken away went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
the total of the gold and silver vessels was five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar brought up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the utensils, in gold and silver, were five thousand and four hundred, - the whole, did Sheshbazzar bring up with the upbringing of the exile, out of Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred: all these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity of Babylon to Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
all the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred and sixty-nine. All these did Shesh-baz'zar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
All the vessels of gold and of silver [are] five thousand and four hundred; the whole hath Sheshbazzar brought up with the going up of the removal from Babylon to Jerusalem.
THE MESSAGE
All told, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles that Sheshbazzar took with him when he brought the exiles back from Babylon to Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

5 So the family leaders from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin prepared to go up to Jerusalem. They were going to Jerusalem to build the Lord 's Temple. Also everyone who God had encouraged prepared to go to Jerusalem. 6 All their neighbors gave them many gifts. They gave them silver, gold, animals, and other expensive things. Their neighbors freely gave them all those things. 7 Also, King Cyrus brought out the things that belonged in the Lord 's Temple that Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from Jerusalem. He had put them in his temple where he kept his false gods. 8 King Cyrus of Persia told Mithredath, the man who keeps his money, to bring those things out. So Mithredath brought them out to Sheshbazzar, the leader of Judah. 9 This is what Mithredath brought out of the Lord's Temple: 30 gold dishes, 1000 silver dishes, 29 knives and pans, 10 30 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls similar to the gold bowls, and 1000 other dishes. 11 All together, there were 5400 things made from gold and silver. Sheshbazzar brought them all with him when the prisoners left Babylon and went back to Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the vessels: Romans 9:23, 2 Timothy 2:19-21

five thousand: Instead of 5,400, the enumeration of the articles in 2 Timothy 2:9, 2 Timothy 2:10, only amounts to 2,499; but in the account, Esdras 2 Timothy 2:13, 2 Timothy 2:14, the amount is 5,469, as will be evident from the following statements:

In Ezra In Esdras

Gold chargers 30 Gold cups 1,000

Silver chargers 1,000 Silver cups 1,000

Knives 29 Silver censers 29

Gold basons 30 Gold vials 30

Silver basons 410 Silver vials 2,410

Other vessels 1,000 Other vessels 1,000

Said to be 5,400 Total 5,469

But only 2,499

Deficiency 2,901 Surplus 69

It is supposed that they actually amounted to 5,400, but that only the chief of there specified, the spoons, etc. being omitted.

captivity: Heb. transportation, Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:12

Reciprocal: Ezra 1:8 - Sheshbazzar Ezra 2:2 - Zerubbabel Ezra 4:1 - children of the captivity Ezra 5:14 - Sheshbazzar Psalms 85:1 - thou hast Jeremiah 27:22 - then

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.
Genesis 1:13
There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the third day.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. They will be used for signs to show when special meetings begin and to show the days and years.
Genesis 1:16
So God made the two large lights. He made the larger light to rule during the day and the smaller light to rule during the night. He also made the stars.
Genesis 1:17
God put these lights in the sky to shine on the earth.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the water be filled with many living things, and let there be birds to fly in the air over the earth."
Genesis 1:29
God said, "I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food.
Genesis 2:5
This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.
Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 2:16
The Lord God gave him this command: "You may eat from any tree in the garden.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the vessels of gold, and of silver, were five thousand and four hundred,.... Those that are mentioned make no more than 2499, which Aben Ezra thinks were the larger vessels; but this general sum takes in great and small, as in 2 Chronicles 36:18 in the letter of Cyrus, before mentioned, these vessels are more particularly described, and their several numbers given, which together amount to the exact number in the text, 5400; the apocryphal Ezra makes them 5469:

all these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity, that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem: of whom there is a large and particular account in the following chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sum of the numbers as they stand in the present Hebrew text is 2,499, instead of 5,400. In the Apocryphal Book of Esdras the sum given is 5,469, and with this sum the items in that place exactly agree (1 Esdras 2:13, 14). Most commentators propose to correct Ezra by the passage of Esdras; but the items of Esdras are improbable. Probably the sum total in the present passage has suffered corruption.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. All the vessels - were five thousand and four hundred. — This place is without doubt corrupted; here it is said the sum of all the vessels, of every quality and kind, was five thousand four hundred; but the enumeration of the articles, as given in Ezra 1:9; Ezra 1:10, gives the sum of two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine only. But we can correct this account from 1Esdras 2:13, 14.

I shall set both accounts down, that they may be compared together.

EZRA, Ezra 1:9-11.
Golden chargers ...... 30
Silver chargers ....... 1000
Knives ................... 29
Golden basons ........ 30
Silver ditto, second sort ... 410
Other vessels ......... 1000

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Said to be 5400 ....... only 2499

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Difference of the first account from itself .. 2901
1 ESDRAS, 1Esdras 2:13, 14.
Golden cups ....... 1000
Silver cups ......... 1000
Silver censers .... 29
Golden vials ........ 30
Silver vials ......... 2410
Other vessels ...... 1000

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Total ................ 5469

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Difference of the second account from the first ... 69


According, therefore, to the sum total in Ezra, the sum total in Esdras is only 69 different. See the next chapter.

It may be said that the vessels did actually amount to 5400, and that the chief of them only were intended to be specified; and these happen to amount to 2499; but that it was not the design of Ezra to insert the whole; and that the ninth verse should be considered as stating, And of the chief of them, that is, the gold and silver articles, this is the number. But the expression in Ezra 1:10, other vessels, sets this conjecture aside: the place is most manifestly corrupted.


 
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