Ezra 2:68

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

After they arrived at the Lord’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family heads gave freewill offerings  for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 9:7

Each person should do as he has decided in his heart #– #not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves  a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 8:3

I can testify that, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord,

Exodus 36:3

They took from Moses’s presence all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the task of making the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.

Exodus 35:29

So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the Lord, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Ezra 3:3

They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.

2 Chronicles 3:1

Then Solomon began  to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah  where the Lord   had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan  the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, ‘This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.’

1 Chronicles 21:18

So the angel of the Lord ordered Gad  to tell David to go and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Exodus 25:2

‘Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

Ezra 2:67

435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

Ezra 2:69

Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins,  3 tonnes  of silver, and 100 priestly garments to the treasury  for the project.

Exodus 35:21

Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves,  our God has not abandoned us in our slavery. He has extended grace to us in the presence of the Persian kings,  giving us relief, so that we can rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins,  to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.