Ezra 2:68

Modern English Version

As some of the heads of households came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, they volunteered to erect the foundations for the house of God.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:18

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.”

2 Chronicles 3:1

So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, at the place that David established on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Ezra 2:67

their camels, four hundred and thirty-five; and their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Ezra 2:69

They gave after their ability to the treasure of the work sixty-one thousand drachmas of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred priestly garments.

Ezra 3:3

They set the altar upon its foundations and, because they were living in fear of some of the peoples of the region, they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord—morning and evening.

Ezra 9:9

For though we were slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, granting us a reviving for the rebuilding of the house of our God, for the repairing of its ruins, and for giving us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Psalm 110:3

Your people will follow you in the day of your battle; on the holy mountains, at the dawn of the morning, the dew of your youth belongs to you.

Exodus 25:2

Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. From every man who gives willingly with his heart you shall receive My offering.

Exodus 35:21

Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit was willing came and brought the Lord’s offering for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

Exodus 35:29

The Israelites brought a willing offering to the Lord, every man and woman whose heart was willing to bring material for all the work which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be made.

Exodus 36:3

They received from Moses all the offerings which the Israelites had brought to do the work of the service of the sanctuary, and they continued to bring to him freewill offerings every morning.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if there is a willing mind first, the gift is accepted according to what a man possesses and not according to what he does not possess.

2 Corinthians 8:3

For I bear record that according to their means, and beyond their means, they freely gave,

2 Corinthians 9:7

Let every man give according to the purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.