KJV ORIGINAL
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Here's the count of what was given: thirty gold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty-nine knives,
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse is listing the valuable temple items that King Cyrus returned to the Jewish people after their exile in Babylon.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of an inventory of precious temple vessels that King Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Solomon's temple when he conquered Jerusalem in 586 BC. About 70 years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylon and issued a decree allowing the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple, returning these sacred items that had been stored in Babylon's treasury.
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