Ezra 8:34 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Ezra 8:34

32 So we ^acame to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

33 Now on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the articles were ^aweighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; with them were the Levites, ^bJozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui,

34 with the number and weight of everything. All the weight was written down at that time.

35 The children of those who had been ^acarried away captive, who had come from the captivity, ^boffered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

36 And they delivered the king’s ^aorders to the king’s satraps and the governors in the region beyond¹ the River. So they gave support to the people and the² house of God.

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Now on the fourth day was the silver . . . weighed in the house of our God—The first three days after their arrival in Jerusalem were undoubtedly given to repose; on the next, the treasures were weighed and handed over to the custody of the officiating priests of the temple. The returned exiles offered burnt offerings, and Ezra delivered the royal commission to the satraps and inferior magistrates; while the Levitical portion of them lent all the assistance they could in performing the additional work which the arrival of so many new worshippers occasioned.

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