Ezra 8:27

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

dua puluh piala emas seharga seribu dirham dan dua buah perlengkapan dari pada tembaga murni yang mengkilat dan indah seperti emas.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
dua puluh piala emas seharga seribu dirham dan dua buah perlengkapan dari pada tembaga murni yang mengkilat dan indah seperti emas.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan dua puluh buah piala keemasan beratnya seribu dirham, dan lagi dua bejana dari pada tembaga samburna yang baik, indahnya seperti emas.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ And I toke out twelue of the chiefe priestes, Sarabia, and Hasabia, and ten of their brethren with them, ²⁵ And wayed them the siluer and golde, and vessels that were appoynted for the house of our God, whiche the king and his consaylers, and his lordes, and al Israel that were there at hand, had geuen together. ²⁶ And I wayed vnto their hande sixe hundred and fiftie talentes of siluer, and in siluer vessels an hundred talentes, and in golde an hundred talentes: ²⁷ Twentie basons of gold of a thousand drammes, and two costly vessels of good brasse, as cleare as golde. ²⁸ And I sayde vnto them: Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, like as the vessels are holy also: and the gold and siluer are geuen of a good wil vnto the Lord God of your fathers. ²⁹ Watch ye, and kepe them: for ye shall way them downe before the chiefe priestes, and Leuites, and auncient fathers of Israel at Hierusalem, in the treasuries of the house of the Lorde. ³⁰ Then toke the priestes and Leuites the wayed siluer and golde, and vessels, to bring it to Hierusalem vnto the house of our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fine copper: Heb. yellow, or shining brass, The Syriac renders, nechosho korinthyo tovo, "good Corinthian brass;" so called from the brass found after the burning of Corinth by Lucius Mummius, which was, as is generally supposed, brass, copper, silver, and gold, melted together. Sir J. Chardin, however, in a manuscript note, cited by Harmer, mentioned a factitious metal used in the East, and highly esteemed there, which might probably be of an origin as ancient as Ezra. He says, "I have heard some Dutch gentlemen speak of a metal in the island of Sumatra, and among the Macassars, much more esteemed than gold, which royal personages alone are privileged to wear. It is a mixture, if I remember right, of gold and steel, or copper and steel." He afterwards added, "calmbac is the name of this metal, which is composed of gold and copper."

precious: Heb. desirable, Lamentations 4:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:6 - pleasant Ezra 7:19 - The vessels

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams,.... Which were upwards of 1000 pounds of our money; for Bishop Cumberland says e, the Persian "daric", "drachma", or "drachm", weighed twenty shillings and four pence; and, according to Dr. Bernard, it exceeded one of our guineas by two grains, :-

and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold; which perhaps is the same with the Indian or Persian brass Aristotle f speaks of, which is so bright and pure, and free from rust, that it cannot be known by its colour from gold, and that there are among the cups of Darius such as cannot be discerned whether they are brass or gold but by the smell: the Syriac version interprets it by Corinthian brass, which was a mixture of gold, silver, and copper, made when Corinth was burnt, and which is exceeding valuable; of which Pliny g makes three sorts, very precious, and of which he says, it is in value next to, and even before silver, and almost before gold; but this sort of brass was not as yet in being: Kimchi h interprets the word here of its colour, being next to the colour of gold.

e Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. f De Mirabilibus, p. 704, vol. 1. g Nat. Hist. l. 34. c. 1, 2. h Sepher Shorash. rad. צהב.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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). Probably the vessels were of orichalcum, an amalgam which was either brass or something nearly approaching to brass, but which was very rarely produced in the ancient world, and, when produced, was regarded as highly valuable.