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.
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Gill's Exposition
Unto one hundred talents of silver,.... Which amounted to 35,300 pounds sterling; these, according to Jarchi, were to buy the offerings or sacrifices with:
and an hundred measures of wheat; or corn,…
We have here the commission which the Persian emperor granted to Ezra, giving him authority to act for the good of the Jews; and it is very ample and full, and beyond what could have been expected.…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Permission to draw, for further expenditure, upon the king's treasury, i. e. upon the sums in the local treasury, which the satrap paid annually out of the tribute money into the king's treasury at…