twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 27. Solids. Hebrew adarconim. Darics, equivalent to the golden sicle. Calmet. 1 Chronicles 29:7.—Best. Prot. “of fine copper, precious as gold.” It might resemble the Corinthian brass, or aurichalcum, ( Bible.) composed of gold, silver, and brass melted together, in the burning of Corinth, by L. Mummius. Pliny xxxiv. 2.—Yet no such Corinthian vessels have come down to us; so that the account seems fabulous; and, at any rate, the city was not taken in the days of Esdras, but A. 608 of Rome. We cannot say whether he speaks of copper, brass, and so forth Calmet.
a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.