Ezra 1:9

And this is the number of them ,.... Of the vessels delivered, as follows:

thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver ; these, according to Ben Melech, were vessels in which water was put to wash hands in; but rather they were, as Aben Ezra observes from the Jerusalem Talmud F18 T. Hieros. Yoma, fol. 41. 1. , vessels in which they gathered the blood of lambs and bullocks slain for sacrifices:

nine and twenty knives ; which, because the handles of them were of gold or silver, were valuable, and might be very large knives, and what the priests used in slaying and cutting up the sacrifices.