Ezra 2:69

According to their ability, gave they unto the treasury of the work, of gold, sixty-one thousand drams, and, of silver, five thousand manehs,—and, tunics for priests, one hundred.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests garments.

In Context

68And, a portion of the ancestral chiefs, when they came to the house of Yahweh which was in Jerusalem, offered voluntarily for the house of God, to set it up on its basis.

70So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, took up their abode, in their cities,—and, all Israel, in their cities.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:14Lo! then, in my humiliation, have I prepared for the house of Yahweh, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a thousand thousand talents, and, as for bronze and iron, without weight, for, an abundance, hath it become,—timber also and stone, have I prepared, and, thereunto, thou canst add.

1 Chronicles 29:7and gave for the service of the house of God, of gold, five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and, of silver, ten thousand talents, and, of bronze, eighteen thousand talents,—and, of iron, one hundred thousand talents.

Nehemiah 7:71and, some of the ancestral chiefs, gave unto the treasury of the work, of gold, twenty thousand darics,—and, of silver, two thousand and two hundred manehs;

Matthew Henry on Ezra 2:65-70

64 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, 65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women. 66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five; 67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. 68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to… Read the whole commentary →

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