Ezra 7:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 12:15 : 15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.
  • 2 Kgs 22:7 : 7 Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.”
  • Ezra 7:26 : 26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord’s will is.

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  • Ezra 7:13-17
    5 verses
    83%

    13I have now issued a decree that anyone in my kingdom from the people of Israel– even the priests and Levites– who wishes to do so may go up with you to Jerusalem.

    14You are authorized by the king and his seven advisers to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your possession,

    15and to bring silver and gold which the king and his advisers have freely contributed to the God of Israel, who resides in Jerusalem,

    16along with all the silver and gold that you may collect throughout all the province of Babylon and the contributions of the people and the priests for the temple of their God which is in Jerusalem.

    17With this money you should be sure to purchase bulls, rams, and lambs, along with the appropriate meal offerings and libations. You should bring them to the altar of the temple of your God which is in Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 7:19-23
    5 verses
    82%

    19Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

    20The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, you may do so from the royal treasury.

    21“I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you–

    22up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil, and unlimited salt.

    23Everything that the God of heaven has required should be precisely done for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should there be wrath against the empire of the king and his sons?

  • Ezra 8:25-30
    6 verses
    77%

    25and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God– items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed.

    26I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

    2720 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.

    28Then I said to them,“You are holy to the LORD, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

    29Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, in the storerooms of the temple of the LORD.

    30Then the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.

  • Deut 14:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.

    26Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it.

  • Ezra 1:4
    76%

    4Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

  • 1 Chr 29:5
    75%

    5for gold and silver items, and for all the work of the craftsmen. Who else wants to contribute to the LORD today?”

  • Ezra 1:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6All their neighbors assisted them with silver utensils, gold, equipment, animals, and expensive gifts, not to mention all the voluntary offerings.

    7Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the LORD’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.

  • Esth 3:11
    73%

    11The king replied to Haman,“Keep your money, and do with those people whatever you wish.”

  • Ezra 5:17
    73%

    17“Now if the king is so inclined, let a search be conducted in the royal archives there in Babylon in order to determine whether King Cyrus did in fact issue orders for this temple of God to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us a decision concerning this matter.”

  • Ezra 6:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Leave the work on this temple of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place.

    8“I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

    9Whatever is needed– whether oxen or rams or lambs for burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by the priests who are in Jerusalem– must be given to them daily without any neglect,

  • 1 Chr 28:13-15
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    72%

    13He gave him the regulations for the divisions of priests and Levites, for all the assigned responsibilities within the LORD’s temple, and for all the items used in the service of the LORD’s temple.

    14He gave him the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the LORD’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service,

    15for the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, for the silver lampstands, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, according to the prescribed use of each lampstand,

  • Exod 35:5
    72%

    5‘Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,

  • Deut 17:10
    72%

    10You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

  • Deut 12:6-8
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    72%

    6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

    7Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

    8You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

  • Ezra 6:5
    72%

    5Furthermore let the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, be returned and brought to their proper place in the temple in Jerusalem. Let them be deposited in the temple of God.’

  • Exod 25:3
    71%

    3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

  • Neh 7:71-72
    2 verses
    71%

    71Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

    72What the rest of the people gave amounted to 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

  • Ezra 7:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

    27Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the LORD which is in Jerusalem!

  • Josh 6:19
    71%

    19All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the LORD. They must go into the LORD’s treasury.”

  • 1 Chr 29:3
    70%

    3Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.

  • Deut 6:18
    70%

    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

  • Joel 3:5
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    5For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

  • Lev 19:5
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    5Eating the Peace Offering“‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.

  • Ezra 2:69
    70%

    69As they were able, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly robes.

  • Num 18:30
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    30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

  • Ps 51:18
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    18Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!