Ezra 8:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Heb. desirable as gold; not that it was of equal price and worth with it, but for its incomparable excellency in its kind, and for its great rarity, for which cause there were only two vessels of that sort.

Ezra 8:27

27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fined copper, precious as gold.