A moment in scripture

Ezra 7:21

"

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

"
Ezra 7:21Read chapter (KJV) KJV

The surrounding passage

  1. Ezra 7:19

    The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

  2. Ezra 7:20

    And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.

  3. Ezra 7:22

    Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

  4. Ezra 7:23

    Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

Read all of Ezra 7 →

Download verse card

Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.