8:27a 20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics,

twenty (20) bowls made of/from gold that were equal in value to one thousand (1,000) darics,
-or-
and twenty gold bowls that altogether had the worth/cost of one thousand gold coins.

8:27b and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

and two (2) fine shiny items/objects made of/from bronze, as valuable/costly as if they were made of/from gold.
-or-
There were also two bronze vessels/utensils of high quality that shone brightly. These were as valuable as ones made of/from gold.

8:25-27 (reordered)

I gave these priests and descendants of Levi the responsibility to guard the gifts of silver, gold, and sacred objects that the king, his advisors, his officials, and Jews had given for the house of our (incl.) God. I weighed the silver, gold and objects. The silver weighed twenty thousand (20,000) kilograms. The gold weighed three thousand four hundred (3,400) kilograms. Then there were objects made of silver. These weighed three thousand four hundred (3,400) kilograms. And there were twenty (20) bowls made of gold that had the value of one thousand (1,000) gold coins. Then there were two objects made of a special kind of bronze that shined. These were desired as much/highly as if they were made of gold.

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