25<\/strong>. and weighed<\/em> ] Money was still for the most part reckoned by weight (cf. on Ezr 7:22<\/span>).<\/p>\n the silver<\/em>, &c.] The offerings referred to in Ezr 7:15-18<\/span>, and the vessels given by the king and others Ezr 7:19<\/span>; Ezr 7:27<\/span>.<\/p>\n the offering of the house<\/em>, &c.] R.V. the offering for the house<\/strong>. A dedicatory offering (t‘rmah), as is described in Exo 35:24<\/span>. Literally ‘the offering of’, as in Exo 30:15<\/span>, ‘the offering of the Lord’, or ‘heave offering unto the Lord’, Num 18:26<\/span>; Num 18:28-29<\/span>; Num 31:29<\/span>; 2Ch 31:14<\/span>, ‘the oblations of the Lord’. Here ‘the offering of’, i.e. ‘belonging to the house’ is equivalent to ‘the offering for the house.’ The expression does not occur again.<\/p>\n his counsellers<\/em> ] cf. on Ezr 7:14<\/span>.<\/p>\n his lords<\/em> ] R.V. his princes<\/strong>; as in Ezr 7:28<\/span>.<\/p>\n and all Israel<\/em> there present<\/em> ] Literally ‘and all Israel that were found’. A peculiar phrase, occurring also in 1Ch 29:17<\/span>, ‘thy people which are present here<\/em> ’ (lit. that are found here); 2Ch 5:11<\/span>, ‘all the priests that were present<\/em> ’ (lit. that were found).<\/p>\n And I weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels<\/strong>,…. When he delivered them to them; this he did as a proof of his own integrity and faithfulness, and as a security against any charge or accusation of embezzling any part of them, and to set them an example, and also that they might be under no temptation of acting such a part, and might be vindicated should they be charged with it: even<\/p>\n the offering of the house of our God<\/strong>; what was freely offered for the service of it:<\/p>\n which the king and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered<\/strong>; as freewill offerings, see Ezr 7:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n (25) And weighed.<\/strong>The gold and silver were in bars. According to the best computation, the silver would amount to a quarter of a million of our money, and the gold to about three-quarters of a million.<\/p>\n 25<\/strong>. <\/strong> Weighed unto them <\/strong> Took a careful inventory of all the offerings that had been given, and consigned them to their care, that it might be shown at Jerusalem that nothing had been lost or stolen by the way.<\/p>\n Ezr 8:25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered:<\/p>\n Ver. 25. And weighed unto them<\/strong> ] Heb. I scaled it out unto them; Cyrus counted it out to Zerubbabel, Ezr 1:1<\/span> ; Ezr 1:9<\/span> , &c. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And his lords<\/strong> ] Called mighty princes, Ezr 7:28<\/span> ; see Isa 10:8<\/span> . <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And all Israel there present<\/strong> ] Heb. There found at that time, or that had found in their purses, found in their hearts.<\/p>\n offering = heave offering. App-43. <\/p>\n all Israel. See note on Ezr 2:2 and 1Ki 12:17. <\/p>\n weighed: Ezr 8:33, Ezr 1:8, 2Co 8:20, 2Co 8:21, Phi 4:8 <\/p>\n the silver: Ezr 7:15, Ezr 7:16 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 23:16 – weighed Num 1:50 – thou shalt Num 7:13 – charger Num 7:85 – two thousand 2Ki 12:4 – and all the money 1Ch 9:28 – the charge 1Ch 28:13 – the vessels 2Ch 35:8 – his princes Ezr 1:6 – strengthened their hands Ezr 2:69 – the treasure Isa 52:11 – be<\/p>\n Ezr 8:25. And weighed unto them the silver and the gold Because he expected to receive it from them again by weight. In all trusts, but especially sacred ones, we ought to be punctual, and preserve a right understanding on both sides. In Zerubbabels time the vessels were delivered by number, here by weight, that all might be forth-coming, and it might easily appear if any were missing.<\/p>\n And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [even] the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his lords, and all Israel [there] present, had offered: 25. and weighed ] Money was still for the most part reckoned by weight (cf. on Ezr 7:22). … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezra 8:25”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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