John Gill Commentary Ezra 1:10

John Gill Commentary

Ezra 1:10

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Ezra 1:10

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand." — Ezra 1:10 (ASV)

Thirty basins of gold Cups or dishes with covers, as the word seems to signify; but, according to Jarchi and Aben Ezra, they were vessels in which the blood of sacrifices was received, and out of which it was sprinkled on the altar:

silver basins of a second sort four hundred and ten ; perhaps lesser than the other, however not so valuable, being of silver; in the Apocrypha: ``And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.'' the number is 2410; and in the letter of Cyrus, before referred to, it is 2400:

and other vessels a thousand ; which are not particularly mentioned; Junius and Tremellius render the words,

other vessels by thousands , there being near 3000 that are not described.