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Ezra 8:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. "

Ezra 8:28

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26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold,

27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.

28 I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

29 Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the LORD’s house.”

30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

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Joshua 6:19

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"But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD. They shall come into the LORD’s treasury.”"

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2 Chronicles 24:14

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"When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for the LORD’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the LORD’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada."

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Exodus 25:29

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"You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold."

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1 Kings 7:48

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"Solomon made all the vessels that were in the LORD’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;"

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Ezra 7:15

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"and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,"

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Daniel 5:23

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"but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways."

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Ezra 8:1

"Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:"

Ezra 8:2

"Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush."

Ezra 8:3

"Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty."

Ezra 8:4

"Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males."

Ezra 8:5

"Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males."

Ezra 8:6

"Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males."

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