Even them did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them unto [a]Sheshbazzar the Prince of Judah.

And this is the number of them, thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty [b]knives,

10 Thirty bowls of gold, and of silver bowls of the second sort, four hundred and ten, and of other vessels, a thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:8 So the Chaldeans called Zerubbabel who was the chief governor, so that the preeminence still remained in the house of David.
  2. Ezra 1:9 Which served to kill the beasts that were offered in sacrifice.

Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar(A) the prince of Judah.

This was the inventory:

gold dishes30
silver dishes1,000
silver pans[a]29
10 gold bowls30
matching silver bowls410
other articles1,000
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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.