twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
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twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
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Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
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and twenty bowels of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.
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- Lamentations 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read Ezra 2:29.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Ezr 8:27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a…
Ezr 8:27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ver. 27. Of a thousand drachms] 312 pounds 10 shillings. The Hebrew (or rather Chaldee) word here rendered a drachm seems to be taken from the Greek word Dραχμη.
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And two vessels of fine copper] Ex orichalco praestante, Of some choice mixed metal, Auro contra non caro. Overlaid with gold without no dross.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heb. desirable as gold; not that it was of…
Heb. desirable as gold; not that it was of equal price and worth with it, but for its incomparable excellency in its kind, and for its great rarity, for which cause there were only two vessels of that sort.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I said unto them, ye are holy unto…
And I said unto them, ye are holy unto the Lord, the vessels are holy also,.... As they were dedicated and set apart to holy service, so the vessels were sacred to holy uses, and therefore not to be converted to any other:
and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers: and therefore not to be made use of but in his service.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams -…
Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams - Not of a thousand drams (i. e., darics) each, but worth altogether a thousand darics. As the value of the daric was about 22 shillings of British money, each basin, or saucer, would have been worth (apart from the fashioning) 55 British pounds.
Of fine copper - The word translated “fine,” which occurs here only, is thought to mean either “yellow” or “glittering” (see the margin). Probably the vessels were of orichalcum, an amalgam which was either brass or something nearly approaching to brass, but which was very rarely produced in the ancient world, and, when produced, was regarded as highly valuable.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Solids. Hebrew adarconim. Darics, equivalent to the golden sicle.…
CHAPTER VIII.
Solids. Hebrew adarconim. Darics, equivalent to the golden sicle. (Calmet) (1 Paralipomenon xxix. 7.) --- Best. Protestants, "of fine copper, precious as gold." It might resemble the Corinthian brass, or aurichalcum, (Haydock) composed of gold, silver, and brass melted together, in the burning of Corinth, by L. Mummius. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxiv. 2.) --- Yet no such Corinthian vessels have come down to us; so that the account seems fabulous; and, at any rate, the city was not taken in the days of Esdras, but in the year 608 of Rome. We cannot say whether he speaks of copper, brass, &c. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold--Almost all…
two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold--Almost all commentators agree in maintaining that the vessels referred to were not made of copper, but of an alloy capable of taking on a bright polish, which we think highly probable, as copper was then in common use among the Babylonians, and would not be as precious as gold. This alloy, much esteemed among the Jews, was composed of gold and other metals, which took on a high polish and was not subject to tarnish [NOYES].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. A thousand drams — Worth about five thousand…
27. A thousand drams — Worth about five thousand five hundred dollars. See on the word dram, or daric, at Ezr_2:69.
Fine copper — Or, rather, copper shining beautifully. The value of all these treasures, according to the above estimate, must have been nearly seven million dollars, an amount so great as to lead us to suspect some corruption or error in the numbers.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. also twenty basons of gold] R.V. and twenty…
27. also twenty basons of gold] R.V. and twenty bowls of gold: ‘bowl’ as in Ezr_1:10.
of a thousand drams] R.V. of a thousand darics. About £1 each: see on Ezr_2:69.
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The total specified values then are about
£243,750 + £37,500 + £675,000 + £1,000 = £957,250,
or nearly a million of our money.
fine copper] R.V. fine bright brass. The Hebrew word (Muçhâbh) occurs only here. LXX. στίλβοντος. Some have suggested ‘orichalchum’, a variety of brass.
1Es_8:57, ‘And twelve (not ‘two’) vessels of brass even of fine brass, glittering like gold’.
precious] a rare word in the Hebrew, occurring also in Gen_27:15, ‘goodly raiment’; 2Ch_20:25; Dan_11:38; Dan_11:43, ‘precious things’ (cf. Dan_10:3, ‘pleasant bread’ or bread of preciousness), applied metaphorically to Daniel himself ‘greatly beloved’ (lit. a man of precious things), Dan_9:23; Dan_10:11; Dan_10:19.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) A thousand drams.—Darics, and therefore the whole worth…
(27) A thousand drams.—Darics, and therefore the whole worth rather more than a thousand guineas.
Fine copper.—Probably the Roman Orichalcum, a metal very highly valued.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams. (see…
Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams. (see comment Ezr_2:69) The "basons" would be worth about each. Fine copper, precious as gold. The metal intended is probably that known to the Romans as orichalchum, which is generally believed to have been brass, but which may have been a more complicated amalgam. Being rarely, and perhaps only accidentally, produced, this metal was highly valued.
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