Ezra 1:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The narrator records the precise count of sacred vessels being transferred to Sheshbazzar immediately after Mithredath the treasurer tallied them by Cyrus’s order.

The words — The phrase וְאֵלֶּה מִסְפָּרָם (ve’elleh misparām) literally means “and these were their number,” introducing the inventory of אֲגַרְטְלֵי זָהָב (’agarṭê zāhāḇ) “basins of gold” and אֲגַרְטְלֵי כֶסֶף (’agarṭê keṣeḇ) “basins of silver.”

The thread — This catalog aligns with the sanctuary furnishings listed in 1 Kings 7:50 and parallels the silver vessels assigned to temple service in Numbers 7:13 and 19.

Why it lands — The text requires the reader to treat the inventory as a factual record of restored worship equipment, demanding verification of the return rather than assuming its completeness.

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The Hebrew words

וְאֵ֖לֶּהve./'E.lehand/ these מִסְפָּרָ֑םmis.pa.Ra/m[were] number/ their אֲגַרְטְלֵ֨י'a.gar.te.Leibasins of זָהָ֜בza.Havgold שְׁלֹשִׁ֗יםshe.lo.Shimthirty אֲגַרְטְלֵי־'a.gar.te.lei-basins of כֶ֙סֶף֙khe.sefsilver אָ֔לֶף'A.lefone thousand מַחֲלָפִ֖יםma.cha.la.Fimknives תִּשְׁעָ֥הtish.'Ahnine וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ סve./'es.Rimand/ twenty

King James Version

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

Cross-references

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;
Numbers 7:19 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 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.
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 Chronicles 4:21 the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;
2 Chronicles 24:14 When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made 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.
Ezra 8:27 20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.
Matthew 10:29 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.
Matthew 14:8 Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”