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Ezra 1:10

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does Ezra 1:10 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Ezra 1:10 — American Standard Version

Context — Ezra 1

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
7Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
8even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
9And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver, nine and twenty knives,
10thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
11All 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.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“Thirty basins of gold, etc.] 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.” (1 Esdras 2:13) the number is 2410; and in the letter of Cyrus, before referred to, it is 2400: and…”
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