Ezra 2:68

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 9:7

Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 8:3

For according to their power (I bear them witness), and beyond their power, they were willing.

Exodus 36:3

He delivered all the offerings of the children of Israel unto them. And while they were earnest about the work, the people daily in the morning offered their vows.

Exodus 35:29

All both men and women with devout mind offered gifts, that the works might be done which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. All the children of Israel dedicated voluntary offerings to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath, not according to that which he hath not.

Psalm 110:3

His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever.

Ezra 3:3

And they set the altar of God upon its bases, while the people of the lands round about put them in fear: and they offered upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning and evening.

2 Chronicles 3:1

And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said: This is the house of God, and this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:18

And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Exodus 25:2

Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring first-fruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

Ezra 2:67

Their camels, four hundred thirty-five: their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Ezra 2:69

According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.

Exodus 35:21

Offered first-fruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service, and to the holy vestments,

Ezra 9:9

For we are bondmen, and in our bondage our God hath not forsaken us, but hath extended mercy upon us before the king of the Persians, to give us life, and to set up the house of our God, and rebuild the desolations thereof, and to give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.