Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezra 2:69
A dram of gold is supposed to be of the weight of the fourth part of a shekel, and of the value of a French crown.
A dram of gold is supposed to be of the weight of the fourth part of a shekel, and of the value of a French crown.
Verse Ezra 2:69. _THREESCORE AND ONE THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD_] דרכמונים _darkemonim_, drakmons or darics; a Persian coin, always of gold, and worth about 1_£_. 5_s_., not less than _£_76,250 sterling i...
The numbers here and in Nehemiah (see the marginal reference) vary....
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The leaders (Ezra 2:1)_ 2. The names of the returning exiles (Ezra 2:3) 3. The priests (Ezra 2:36) 4. The Levites and singers (Ez
THE FREE-WILL OFFERINGS OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES, AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE EXILES (_cf._ Nehemiah 7:70). The gifts are, of course, for the Temple and its worship. Ezra 2:68. when they came to the hou...
TREASURE. treasury....
_they gave_&c. There is a slight discrepancy between the sums mentioned in this verse and the sums recorded in greater detail in Nehemiah. The figures stand thus _Ezra_ Heads of fathers" houses 61,0...
This passage is given in greater accuracy of detail in Nehemiah 7:70-72....
_VER._ 69. _THREESCORE AND ONE THOUSAND DRACHMS OF GOLD, AND FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SILVER_— About seventy-five thousand five hundred pounds of our money; for every drachm of gold is worth ten shilli...
8. Their offerings for restoring the Temple are recorded. TEXT, EZRA 2:68-69 68 And some of the heads of fathers-' households, when they arrived at the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offe...
_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._ Drams of gold - rather d...
2:69 darics (c-14) * A Persian gold coin weighing about 130 grains. See 1 Chronicles 29:7 . The pound is the Hebrew _ maneh_ , about 50 shekels in money. see Nehemiah 7:71 ; Ezekiel 45:12 ....
THE NAMES AND NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED 1. The province] i.e. the Persian province of Judæa (Ezra 5:8). HAD CARRIED AWAY] in 597 b.c. and 586 b.c. EVERY ONE UNTO HIS CITY] i.e. to the provincial t...
DRAMS] The dram (Gk. _drachma_), like the pound (_maneh_), was a weight, equivalent to the Hebrew half-shekel. The pound contained 100 drams. Some authorities render the word translated 'dram' by dari...
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 In the Book of Ezra, there are many names. Some of these people were leaders. However, Ezra also refers to many people who were not wel...
The dram being a daric of a little more than our guinea, and the pound, or maneh, a little more than £4. the whole would be nearly £90,000, and not an exorbitant sum for a community far from poor. But...
כְּ כֹחָ֗ם נָתְנוּ֮ לְ אֹוצַ֣ר הַ מְּלָאכָה֒
THE NEW TEMPLE Ezra 2:68; Ezra 3:1 UNLIKE the historian of the exodus from Egypt, our chronicler gives no account of adventures of the pilgrims on the road to Palestine, although much of their way le...
THE BUILDING OF THE ALTAR Ezra 2:61; Ezra 3:1 Throughout their history the true Israelites were eager to maintain their genealogy; wherever they were scattered, they carefully guarded their national...
Chapter two contains the register of those who, taking advantage f Cyrus's decree, turned their faces toward Jerusalem. The list proceeds in a definite order, from the leaders downward. First, the nam...
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand (n) drams of gold, and five thousand (o) pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' garments. (n) Which in our...
_Solids. Hebrew darcemonim. (Haydock) --- "Darics," worth as much as a golden sicle. (Pelletier) (Calmet) (1 Paralipomenon xxix. 7.) --- Pounds, (mnas) or 60 sicles. (Menochius) --- 3 Esdras has "mnas...
Their liberal offerings are taken notice of because they were given with a liberal heart, though compared to former gifts in the building of the first temple, their whole collection was small indeed....
Nevertheless, God still gives the people-guilty under the law-an opportunity for the exercise of faith. Let us examine the principles that characterise the energy of the Holy Ghost in the people at th...
THEY GAVE AFTER THEIR ABILITY UNTO THE TREASURE OF THE WORLD THREESCORE AND ONE THOUSAND DRACHMS OF GOLD,.... These "darcemons or darics" were a Persian coin; one of which, according to Brerewood k, w...
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. Ver. 69. _They gave after...
_Threescore and one thousand drachms of gold_, &c. About seventy-five thousand and five hundred pounds of our money; for every drachm of gold is worth ten shillings of our money, and every mina, or po...
1 The number that returne, of the people, 36 of the Priests, 40 of the Leuites, 43 of the Nethinims, 55 of Solomons seruants, 62 of the Priests which could not shewe their pedigree. 64 The whole...
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drains of gold, that is, Persian darics, AND FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SILVER (almost $400,000 all told), and one...
THE POSSESSIONS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE RETURNED EXILES...
LIST OF RETURNED CAPTIVES (vv. 1-58) This chapter shows the definite interest God had in every individual who returned from the captivity, so that the number from each city is recorded, and the tota...
64-70 Let none complain of the needful expenses of their religion. Seek first the kingdom of God, his favour and his glory, then will all other things be added unto them. Their offerings were nothing...
Ezra 2:69 ability H3581 gave H5414 (H8804) treasury H214 work H4399 sixty-one H8337 H7239 thousand H505 gold...
A LIST OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM IN THE INITIAL STAGES (EZRA 2:1). In this chapter we are provided with a list of those who returned from Babylon, taking advantage of Cyrus' edic...
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (EZRA 2:68). The description of these differs considerably from that in Nehemiah 7:70, which does not mention the Temple, but gives greater detail conc...
CONTENTS: The returning remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Zerubbabel. CONCLUSION: Sin debases and diminishes a nation but God always has a faithful remnant who love the ceremonies of His house and give libe...
Ezra 2:1. _The children of the province._ Judea under Zedekiah was reduced to a province of the Babylonian empire; or the phrase may import, the children of Israel who resided in the province of Babyl...
_And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely._ POSSESSIONS AND OFFERINGS I. The completion of their journey. “They came to the...
EZRA 2:1 The Exiles Live Again in Their Ancestral Homes. This long chapter tells of the exiles’ return from Babylon to resettle in their former homes in Jerusalem and Judah. (The information in ch. Ez...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 2:69 DARICS were gold coins used throughout the Persian Empire. Archaeologists have found darics bearing the name of the Persian province Yehud, probably indicating that the returned...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have _the list of those who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel, and their contributions for rebuilding the Temple_. The contents may be arrange...
EXPOSITION THE OFFERINGS MADE BY THE RETURNED EXILES ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM (Ezra 2:68-15). It has been customary among the pious of all ages and countries to make thank-offering
So here they are returning to Jerusalem, as I said, some fifty thousand. And in chapter two it gives you the names of the people and the families that came and the numbers that came with them. Beginni...
1 Chronicles 22:14; 1 Chronicles 26:20; 1 Kings 7:51; Ezra 8:25;...
Sixty one thousand drams — Sixty one thousand drams of gold amount to something more than so many pounds of our money. So bishop Cumberland, who likewise supposes five thousand pounds of silver, to be...