Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Ezra 1:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
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Quick Meaning
This verse begins the itemized inventory with gold and silver chargers and knives
Read It With
- Ezra 1:5–11
Read Ezra 1:5–11 together. This verse begins the itemized inventory with gold and silver chargers and knives Read Ezra 1:5–11 as one complete Ezra thought unit: God stirs people from Judah, Benjamin, the priests, and Levites to rebuild. Neighbors give resources, Cyrus releases temple vessels, Mithredath counts them to Sheshbazzar, and the vessels travel with the returnees.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The book moves from decree to accountable action: willing people, local material help, recovered temple property, and named custody prepare for communal reconstitution. Within that movement, this verse begins the itemized inventory with gold and silver chargers and knives
Read Ezra 1:5–11 together
Why these verses belong together: The response to Cyrus, neighbor support, release and inventory of temple vessels, Sheshbazzar's commission, and transport to Jerusalem form one mobilization and custody scene; chapter 2 begins the community register.
Verse 5. 5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Verse 6. 6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
Verse 7. 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;
Verse 8. 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.
Verse 9. 9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Verse 10. 10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Verse 11. 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.
What Remains True
Within Ezra's own literary movement, Ezra 1:9 begins the itemized inventory with gold and silver chargers and knives.
How It Can Shape Life
- Apply Ezra 1:9 by noticing that it begins the itemized inventory with gold and silver chargers and knives; in a comparable situation, keep documented chains of custody for donated or recovered assets, acknowledge supporters, and avoid judging people whose faithful role differs from visible relocation.
Continue in Context
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Read Ezra 1:5–11 — People rise and temple vessels returnSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Ezra 1:5–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezra
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic wording, morphology, names, clause relations, and translation controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezra.xml, Hebrew and Aramaic words and morphology for 1:5–11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Ezra with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material lexical, grammatical, textual, Persian-period, numerical, and translation notes within the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Ezra PDF, printed pp. 748–749, translation and translator notes on 1:5–11
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