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Ezra 1:7-11

King James Version (KJV)

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7. Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; 8. Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. 9. And this [is] the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, 10. Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second [sort] four hundred and ten, [and] other vessels a thousand. 11. All the vessels of gold and of silver [were] five thousand and four hundred. All [these] did Sheshbazzar bring up with [them of] the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

Ezra 1:7-11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezra 1:7

Theological / Devotional

The vessels. All vessels listed are of gold and silver. Since many Temple objects taken by Nebuchadnezzar were of bronze (2 Kings 25:14), Cyrus evidently restored only those that had been dedicated to Babylonian deities and thus preserved since their arrival from Jerusalem more than half a century earlier. It seems that objects not made of precious metals had not been preserved.

This generous act on the part of Cyrus was not an isolated case. The king relates in the inscription of the afore-mentioned clay barrel in the British Museum that he returned to their rightful places many cult objects previously plundered by the Babylonians.

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