Tobiæ 7:6

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Sacerdotes autem stabant in officiis suis : et Levitæ in organis carminum Domini, quæ fecit David rex ad laudandum Dominum : Quoniam in æternum misericordia ejus, hymnos David canentes per manus suas : porro sacerdotes canebant tubis ante eos, cunctusque Israël stabat.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ipse Esdras ascendit de Babylone, et ipse scriba velox in lege Moysi, quam Dominus Deus dedit Isra�l: et dedit ei rex secundum manum Domini Dei ejus super eum, omnem petitionem ejus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
ipse Esdras ascendit de Babylone et ipse scriba velox in lege Moysi, quam dedit Dominus, Deus Israel. Cumque manus Domini Dei eius esset super eum, dedit ei rex omnem petitionem eius.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a ready: Sopher mahir does not merely signify a speedy writer, or an excellent penman, but one eminently skilful in expounding the law, sophro chochmo, "a wise scribe," as the Syriac renders. Ezra 7:11, Ezra 7:12, Ezra 7:21, Psalms 45:1, Matthew 13:52

scribe: Nehemiah 8:4, Nehemiah 8:9, Nehemiah 8:13, Nehemiah 12:26, Nehemiah 12:36, Jeremiah 8:8, 1 Corinthians 1:20

the law: Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 28:1, Matthew 28:20, 1 Corinthians 15:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:2

granted him: Ezra 7:11-26

according to: Ezra 7:9, Ezra 7:28, Ezra 6:22, Ezra 8:18, Ezra 8:22, Ezra 8:31, Genesis 32:28, Nehemiah 1:10, Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah 2:8, Nehemiah 2:12, Nehemiah 2:18, Nehemiah 4:15, Proverbs 3:6, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 59:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:50 - and give them 1 Chronicles 2:55 - the scribes 1 Chronicles 24:6 - the scribe 2 Chronicles 34:13 - scribes Ezra 5:5 - But the eye Ezra 7:10 - the law Ezra 9:9 - in the sight Nehemiah 1:7 - which thou Esther 2:9 - she obtained Proverbs 22:11 - the king Jeremiah 40:5 - or go Matthew 2:4 - scribes Matthew 8:19 - certain Acts 18:24 - mighty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This Ezra went up from Babylon,.... A second time; for that he went up with Zerubbabel is clear from Nehemiah 12:1, and is plainly intimated, Ezra 5:4,

and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; the meaning is, not that he had a quick hand in writing out copies of it, but was well versed in the knowledge of it; had studied it thoroughly, well instructed in it, and was abundantly qualified to teach it others; he was an eminent doctor of the law; so scribes, in the New Testament, who are the same with the lawyers, were such as were teachers of the law; the word here used in the Arabic language signifies to be expert, as Jarchi o learned from one of their doctors:

and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him; either upon Ezra, giving him favour with the king, and so success and prosperity; or it may denote the divine influence of the God of Ezra upon the heart of the king, moving him to grant what he asked of him, even everything he desired: he seems to have been sent upon an embassy to the king from the chief men at Jerusalem; perhaps the governors of Syria had not so fully made the disbursements the king in his decree had required them to make, since the following commission chiefly respects such things; and he was sent on that errand to acquaint the king with it, as well as to persuade those that remained to return, and to obtain leave for it.

o Comment. in Psal. xlv. 1. "acutus ingenio et solers fuit", Golius, col. 2272. "in re exercitatus fuit et excultus", Castel. col. 2008. Ethiop. "docuit, erudivit", ib. col. 2007.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A ready scribe - Or, “a ready writer” Psalms 45:1. The professional scribe was well known in Egypt from an early date (see Genesis 39:4 note); and under David and his successors “scribes” were attached to the court as the king’s secretaries (2 Samuel 8:17; 2 Samuel 20:25; 2 Kings 12:10, etc.). It was scarcely, however, until the time of the captivity that the class to which Ezra belonged arose. The “scribes” of this time, and of later Jewish history, were students, interpreters, and copiers of the Law (see the marginal references and Jeremiah 8:8). They retained the knowledge of the old dialect, which was being rapidly superseded by a new one. The emphatic application of the title “the scribe” to Ezra marks the high honor in which the office was now held. Its glories eclipsed those of the priesthood.

The hand of the Lord ... upon him - The use of this phrase in a good sense is rare elsewhere (compare 1 Kings 18:46), but is a favorite one with both Ezra and Nehemiah (see the marginal references; Nehemiah 2:8, Nehemiah 2:18).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 7:6. A ready scribe — סופר מחיר sopher machir does not merely signify a speedy writer or an excellent penman, but one who was eminently skilful in expounding the law. In this sense the word γραμματευς, scribe, is repeatedly used in the New Testament, and we find that both in the Old and New Testament it had the same signification. The Syriac gives the sense of the word by translating [Persian] sophro chocimo, a wise scribe, or expounder.