Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
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Gill's Exposition
For the shewbread,.... To defray the expenses of the twelve loaves, which every week were set on the table of shewbread, Lev 24:5,
and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt…
Barnes' Notes
The third part of a sheckel - This appears to have been the first occasion on which an annual payment toward the maintenance of the temple service and fabric was established. The half-shekel of the…
Adam Clarke
Charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel - According to the law, every one above twenty years of age was to give half a shekel to the sanctuary, which was called a ransom for their…
Having covenanted against the sins they had been guilty of, they proceed in obliging themselves to revive and observe the duties they had neglected. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do…
Cambridge Bible
A poll-tax of ⅓ of a shekel imposed for the maintenance of the service of the Temple
32. we made ordinances for us The verse shows that Ezra and his colleagues, although establishing the authority of…
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