A moment in scripture
Ezra 2:68
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
The surrounding passage
- Ezra 2:66
Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
- Ezra 2:67
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
- Ezra 2:69
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
- Ezra 2:70
So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.