John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 1:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 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.

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