John Gill Commentary Ezra 1:9

"And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives," — Ezra 1:9 (ASV)

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 ^F18 , 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F18: T. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1.