Ezra 2:69

The numbers here and in Nehemiah (see the marginal reference) vary.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand (n) drams of gold, and five thousand (o) pounds of silver, an...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Free-will Offerings of the Heads of Families, and the Settlement of the Exiles ( cf. Nehemiah 7:70-72 ). The gifts are, of course, for the Te...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

treasure . treasury.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 hun...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 69. Threescore and one thousand drachms of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver — About seventy-five thousand five hundred pounds of ou...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Names and Number of those who returned 1. The province] i.e. the Persian province of Judæa ( Ezra 5:8 ). Had carried away ] in 597 b.c. and 5...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Drams ] The dram (Gk. drachma ), like the pound ( maneh ), was a weight, equivalent to the Hebrew half-shekel. The pound contained 100 drams. Some...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The dram being a daric of a little more than our guinea, and the pound, or maneh, a little more than £4. the whole would be nearly £90,000, and not a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE NEW TEMPLE Ezra 2:68-70 ; Ezra 3:1-13 UNLIKE the historian of the exodus from Egypt, our chronicler gives no account of adventures of the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Building of the Altar Ezra 2:61-70 ; Ezra 3:1-7 Throughout their history the true Israelites were eager to maintain their genealogy; where...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Chapter two contains the register of those who, taking advantage f Cyrus's decree, turned their faces toward Jerusalem. The list proceeds in a defini...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Their liberal offerings are taken notice of because they were given with a liberal heart, though compared to former gifts in the building of the firs...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the world threescore and one thousand drachms of gold ,.... These "darcemons or darics" were a Pe...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 hun...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Threescore and one thousand drachms of gold , &c. About seventy-five thousand and five hundred pounds of our money; for every drachm of gold is...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LIST OF RETURNED CAPTIVES (vv. 1-58) This chapter shows the definite interest God had in every individual who returned from the captivity, so th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

64 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, 65 Beside their servants and their maids, o...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A dram of gold is supposed to be of the weight of the fourth part of a shekel, and of the value of a French crown.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A List Of Those Who Returned From Babylon To Jerusalem In The Initial Stages ( Ezra 2:1-70 ). In this chapter we are provided with a list of those...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Contributions Towards The Building Of The Temple ( Ezra 2:68-69 ). The description of these differs considerably from that in Nehemiah 7:70-72 ,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have the list of those who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel, and their contributions for...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 2:1 . The children of the province. Judea under Zedekiah was reduced to a province of the Babylonian empire; or the phrase may import, the ch...
The Biblical Illustrator

And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely. Possessions and offerings...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE OFFERINGS MADE BY THE RETURNED EXILES ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM ( Ezra 2:68-15 ). It has been customa...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Possessions and the Contributions of the Returned Exiles
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drains of gold, that is, Persian darics, and five thousand p...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 22:14 ; 1 Chronicles 26:20-28 ; 1 Kings 7:51 ; Ezra 8:25-34 ; Nehemiah 7:71 ; Nehemiah 7:72
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sixty one thousand drams — Sixty one thousand drams of gold amount to something more than so many pounds of our money. So bishop Cumberland, who li...

⁶⁹ 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.

Related Commentaries of Ezra 2:69

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezra 2:69