Ezra 8:27 20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics, and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics, and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

English Standard Version
20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.

New American Standard Bible
and 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold.

King James Bible
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
20 gold bowls worth 1,000 gold coins, and two articles of fine gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.

International Standard Version
20 gold basins weighing 1,000 darics each, and two vessels made of polished brass, as valuable as gold.

American Standard Version
and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And twenty cups of gold, of a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, beautiful as gold.

Darby Bible Translation
and twenty basons of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of shining copper, precious as gold.

Young's Literal Translation
and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:7
And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

Ezra 1:9
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

Ezra 8:26
I even weighed to their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

Ezra 8:28
And I said to them, You are holy to the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD God of your fathers.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:24-30 Do we expect that God should, by his providence, keep that which belongs to us, let us, by his grace, keep that which belongs to him. Let God's honour and interest be our care; and then we may expect that our lives and comforts will be his.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

27. 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].