Ezra 2:68

⁶⁶ They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

⁶⁷ 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

⁶⁹ According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.

⁷⁰ So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
KJV: 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:
WEB: Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
ASV: And some of the heads of fathers` [houses], when they came to the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
DARBY: And some of the chief fathers, when they came to the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in its place.
BLB: And [some] of the heads of the fathers, in their coming in to the house of YHWH which [is] in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to establish it in its place.

ÅB: Noen av familiehodene gav, da de kom til Herrens hus i Jerusalem, frivillige gaver til Guds hus, så det kunne gjenreises på sitt gamle sted;
OTB: Ved ankomsten til Herrens hus i Jerusalem, ga noen av familieoverhodene frivillige gaver til gjenoppbyggingen av Guds hus på dets sted.
B1930: Nogen av familiehodene gav, da de kom til Herrens hus i Jerusalem, frivillige gaver til Guds hus, så det kunde gjenreises på sitt gamle sted;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Corinthians 9:7
Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
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2 Corinthians 8:3
For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,
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Exodus 35:5–19
Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;
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Exodus 36:3
They received from Moses all the contributions that the Israelites had brought to carry out the service of constructing the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning,
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Exodus 35:29
So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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1 Chronicles 22:1
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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Numbers 7:3–89
They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders—and presented them before the tabernacle.
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