Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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, gives the sum of two thousand four hundred and ninety-nine only. But we can correct this account from 1 Esdras 2:13, 14.
I shall set both accounts down, that they may be compared together.
\trowd \trgaph108 \trleft108 x3366 x6516
d Ezra 1:9, Ezra 1:11 1 Esdras 2:13, 14
d \row \trowd \trgaph108 \trleft108 x2070 x3336 x4950 x6564
d Golden chargers
d 30
d Golden cups
d 1000
d \row
d Silver chargers
d 1000
d Silver cups
d 1000
d \row
d Knives
d 29
d Silver censers
d 29
d \row
d Golden basons
d 30
d Golden vials
d 30
d \row
d Silver basons, second sort
d 410
d Silver vials
d 2410
d \row
d Other vessels
d 1000
d Other vessels
d 1000
d \row \trowd \trgaph108 \trleft108 \clbrdrt x3330 \clbrdrt x4947 \clbrdrt x6564
d Said to be 5400 - only 2499 Total
d 5469
d \row \trowd \trgaph108 \trleft108 x3336 x6564
d Difference of the first account from itself: 2901 Difference of the second account from the first: 69
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According, therefore, to the sum total in Ezra, the sum total in Esdras is only 69 different. See the next chapter, Ezra 2 (note).
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 Ezra 1:10, other vessels, sets this conjecture aside: the place is most manifestly corrupted.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Ezra 1:11:
Ezra 1:7
Ezra 1:11
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