Ezra 2:68

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As soon as they came to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, some of the heads of families made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:18

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David that he should go up and erect 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 burnt offering for Israel.”

2 Chronicles 3:1

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

Ezra 2:67

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

Ezra 2:69

According to their resources they gave to the building fund sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly robes.

Ezra 3:3

They set up the altar on its foundation because they were in dread of the people of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings upon it to the Lord, morning and evening.

Ezra 9:9

For we are slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem.

Psalm 110:3

Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day you lead your forces on the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning, like dew, your youth will come to you.

Exodus 25:2

“Tell the Israelites to take for me an offering; from all whose hearts prompt them to give you shall receive the offering for me.

Exodus 35:21

And they came, everyone whose heart was stirred and everyone whose spirit was willing, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the sacred vestments.

Exodus 35:29

All the Israelite men and women whose hearts made them willing to bring anything for the work that the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the Lord.

Exodus 36:3

and they received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for the work of constructing the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,

2 Corinthians 8:12

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

2 Corinthians 8:3

For, as I can testify, they voluntarily gave according to their means and even beyond their means,

2 Corinthians 9:7

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.