Ezra 1:11 explained by Adam Clarke
Verse 11. All the vessels - were five thousand and four hundred.] This place is without doubt corrupted; here it is said the sum of all the vessels, of every quality and kind, was five thousand four hundred; but the enumeration of the articles, as given in Ezra 1:9; Ezra 1:10 (refs2), gives the sum of two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine only. But we can correct this account from 1Esdras 2:13, 14.
I shall set both accounts down, that they may be compared together.
EZRA, Ezr 1:9-11.
Golden chargers ......
30
Silver chargers .......
1000
Knives ...................
29
Golden basons ........
30
Silver ditto, second sort ...
410
Other vessels .........
1000
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Said to be 5400 .......
only 2499
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Difference of the first account from itself ..
2901
1 ESDRAS, 1Esdras 2:13, 14.
Golden cups .......
1000
Silver cups .........
1000
Silver censers ....
29
Golden vials ........
30
Silver vials .........
2410
Other vessels ......
1000
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Total ................
5469
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Difference of the second account from the first ...
69
According, therefore, to the sum total in Ezra, the sum total in Esdras is only 69 different. See the next chapter.
It may be said that the vessels did actually amount to 5400, and that the chief of them only were intended to be specified; and these happen to amount to 2499; but that it was not the design of Ezra to insert the whole; and that the ninth verse should be considered as stating, And of the chief of them, that is, the gold and silver articles, this is the number. But the expression in Ezr 1:10, other vessels, sets this conjecture aside: the place is most manifestly corrupted.
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