Ezra 2:68 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 Temple and its worship.

Ezra 2:68. when they came to the house of Yahweh: these words would imply that the Temple was already in existence; if not a gloss they are an oversight of the Chronicler, especially in view of the words which follow, to set it up in its place.

Ezra 2:69. This is obviously an exaggeration; all that we learn of the returned exiles shows them to have been poor.

Ezra 2:70. priests-' garments: these were made of linen (Leviticus 16:4), and had embroidered work (Exodus 28:4; Exodus 39:27).

Ezra 2:68-70

68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

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.

70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.