Ezra 8:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers. ”

• Ezra 8:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Gathering together of the Exiles at Ahava. The narrative is told here in the first person. Ezra 8:15 . Ahava: cf. Ezra 8:21 ; Ezra 8:31 ; this seems to have been a place which gave its...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  holy . a holy body. See note on Exodus 3:5 .

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• Ezra 8:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.

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• Ezra 8:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers. No JFB commentary on these v...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Particulars of Ezra's Company 1. Them that went up] The sum of the numbers given is 1,496. Only males are mentioned, and if no women accompanied them, the absence of such doubtless increased the t...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (15-31) The journey through Ahava to Jerusalem.

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• Ezra 8:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Thanksgiving for Safety and Success Ezra 8:24-36 Into our hands also is committed first the rich treasure and solemn trust of our own souls, and next the great deposit of the gospel; 1 Timothy...

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• Ezra 8:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we have, first, a representative list of those who joined Ezra when he went up to Jerusalem. First in order, members of the priestly and royal houses are named (verses Ezr 8:1-2). The...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Is there not a sweet spiritual instruction here? Doth not the apostle, in allusion to gospel treasures for himself and his faithful companions, observe, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. 2 C...

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• Ezra 8:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I said unto them, ye are holy unto the Lord, the vessels are holy also ,.... As they were dedicated and set apart to holy service, so the vessels were sacred to holy uses, and therefore not to b...

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• Ezra 8:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I said unto them, Ye [are] holy unto the LORD; the vessels [are] holy also; and the silver and the gold [are] a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers. Ver. 28. We are holy unto t...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I said, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also Being men consecrated to God's service, you are bound, above all others, to be faithful in the discharge of your duty, especially being...

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• Ezra 8:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  A LIST OF EZRA'S COMPANIONS (vv. 1-14) Those who voluntarily came to accompany Ezra to Jerusalem are recorded here, the men numbering almost 1500. Women also must have been present, but are not...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ezra's Care of the Temple Treasure. B. C. 457.       24 Then I separated twelve of the chief...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Ezra 8:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezra Entrusts The Gifts For The House Of YHWH Into The Hands Of Twelve Chief Priests For Them To Guard On The Journey ( Ezra 8:24-30 ). It is never right to use faith as an excuse for foolishness....

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• Ezra 8:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] This chapter contains—(i.) A list of the heads of houses, with the number of adult males accompanying each of them, who went with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem ( Ezr...

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• Ezra 8:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezra 8:15 . The river that runneth to Ahava, or the river of Diavam. Adiabena is a remote region, according to Boiste, in Assyria, and contiguous to Parthia: but whether the city and river of Ahav...

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• Ezra 8:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And weighed unto them the silver and the gold, and the vessels. The guardianship of the sacred treasures I. The treasures to be guarded. 1. Valuable in themselves. 2. Valuable as being co...

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• Ezra 8:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezra 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there. The fight of the civil ruler to "proclaim a fast" was unquestioned among the Jews and Israelites. Jezebel proclaimed one in Ahab's n...

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• Ezra 8:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Priests Entrusted With The Lord's Treasures

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• Ezra 8:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 23:28 ; 1 Kings 7:48-51 ; 2 Chronicles 24:14 ; Deuteronomy 33:8 ; Ezra 1:7-11 ; Isaiah 52:11 ; Leviticus 21:6-8 ; Leviticus 22:2 ; Leviticus 22:3 ; Numbers 4:19 ; Numbers 4:20...

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