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尼希米记 7:70

為聖殿而奉獻的財物(拉2:68~70)有些族長為了這工程而捐獻;省長捐給庫房金子八公斤、碗五十個和祭司的禮服五百三十件;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dram;   Levites;   Liberality;   Priest;   Temple;   Tirshatha;   Thompson Chain Reference - Generosity;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Liberality;   Priests;   Weights;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Dram;   Money;   Tirshatha;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Drams;   Ezra, the Book of;   Money;   Nehemiah;   Tirshatha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Nehemiah;   Tirshatha;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acud;   Ammidioi;   Ezra, Book of;   Hagab;   Kilan;   Money;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Sheshbazzar;   Tirshatha;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Tirshatha ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Daric;   Money;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Coins;   Daric;   Governor;   Tirshatha;   Treasure;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Basin;   Captivity;   Coat;   Ezra, Book of;   Money;   Numismatics;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
有 些 族 长 为 工 程 捐 助 。 省 长 捐 入 库 中 的 金 子 一 千 达 利 克 , 碗 五 十 个 , 祭 司 的 礼 服 五 百 三 十 件 。

Contextual Overview

5 Then my God caused me to gather the important people, the leaders, and the common people so I could register them by families. I found the family history of those who had returned first. This is what I found written there: 6 These are the people of the area who returned from captivity, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each going back to his own town. 7 These people returned with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. These are the people from Israel: 8 the descendants of Parosh—2,172; 9 the descendants of Shephatiah—372; 10 the descendants of Arah—652; 11 the descendants of Pahath-Moab (through the family of Jeshua and Joab)—2,818; 12 the descendants of Elam—1,254; 13 the descendants of Zattu—845; 14 the descendants of Zaccai—760;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

some: Heb. part, Ezra 2:68-70

the chief: Numbers 7:2-86, 1 Chronicles 29:3-9

The Tirshatha: Nehemiah 8:9, Nehemiah 10:1

drams: Darkemonim, or darics; a Persian gold coin, worth about 1. 5s.

basins: Exodus 12:22, Exodus 24:6, 1 Kings 7:45, 1 Chronicles 28:17, 2 Chronicles 4:8, 2 Chronicles 4:11, Jeremiah 52:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:22 - every man Numbers 7:84 - the dedication Joshua 6:19 - the treasury 2 Chronicles 35:8 - his princes Ezra 8:1 - the chief Mark 12:44 - cast in of

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work,.... Of building the city and the temple, and for that service, Ezra 2:68,

the Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drachms of gold; each of which was one pound sterling, and so amounted to so many pounds: of these "dracmons", or "darics", a Persian coin, mention is made in Ezra 2:69, they were golden staters, or shekels and had their name as is said, not from Darius, the father of Xerxes, though it is certain, from Herodotus d, that he coined golden money; but from some other king of the same name, more ancient e, which must be Darius the Mede; and if they are the same with the Adarcon in Ezra 8:27 as they seem to be, then those in 1 Chronicles 29:7 were pieces of money not so called in the times of David, but of Ezra, the writer of that book: whether this Tirshatha was Zerubbabel, or Nehemiah, is not easy to say, since this donation is not the same with that in Ezra, not made at the same time nor are the gifts the same, nor the persons that gave them. Zerubbabel was Tirshatha when the Jews came out of Babylon, and Nehemiah now:

fifty basins; which were vessels, in the which the blood of the sacrifices was received and out of which it was sprinkled:

five hundred and thirty priests' garments; which were laid up in the wardrobe, and used on occasion.

d Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 166. e Scholiast. in Aristoph. Eccles. p. 741, 742. So Harpocration. Lexic. in voce δαρδικος, and Suidas on the same word.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compared with Ezra 2:69 there is considerable difference between the totals for gold, silver, and garments. The usual explanation is that of corruption in the one or the other of the passages.

Nehemiah 7:73

Dwelt in their cities - Nehemiah’s quotation from Zerubbabel’s register ends here, and the narration of events in Jerusalem in his own day is resumed from Nehemiah 7:3. The narrative Nehemiah 8:0; Nehemiah 10:0 appears from internal evidence to be by a different author (see the introduction of the Book of Nehemiah).

The last two clauses of Nehemiah 7:73 should stand as the beginning of Nehemiah 8:0 (as in the Septuagint). The text would then run: “And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in their cities, the whole people gathered themselves together as one man,” etc. Compare the margin reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 70. The Tirshatha gave — The Septuagint, particularly the copy in the Codex Alexandrinus, intimates that this sum was given to the Tirshatha, or Nehemiah: Και τῳ Αθερσαθᾳ εδωκαν εις θησαυρον, And to the Athersatha they gave for the treasure, &c.

For the meaning of the word Tirshatha, see on Ezra 2:63.


 
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