Ezra 2:69

Ezra 2:69

67 their camels four hundred and thirty-five, and their donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

68 ^aSome of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to erect it in its place:

69 According to their ability, they gave to the ^atreasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments.

70 ^aSo the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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drams of gold—rather, "darics," a Persian coin (see on I Chronicles 29:7).

priests' garments—(compare Nehemiah 7:70). This—in the circumstances—was a very appropriate gift. In general, it may be remarked that presents of garments, or of any other usable commodities, however singular it may seem to us, is in harmony with the established notions and customs of the East.

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