Ezra - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 916
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
sive was, Forty thousand, three hundred and sixty, beside their men and women servants, who were Seven thousand three hundred and thirty·seven, with two hun- dred singing men and women. Seven hundred and sixty horsemen; Two hundred and forty-five mules; four hun- dred and thirtydive camels; Six thousand and seven hun- dred and twenty asses. 4¤.s6<> 7.337 200 760
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on their arrival at the House of the EvER~L1v1N<; in jerusalem, oiiered gifts to the Temple of Gob to erect it upon its foundations. They gave according to their power, to the treasury of the Works, Sixty thousand Darics of Gold; and five thousand pounds weight of silver; and a hundred priests} robes] § Qlzln Qliar @niIi. Thus the Priests and the Levites,
and some- of the People, and the Singers, and the Gate-keepers, and the Attendants, returned, with many of Israel to their villages, and on the arrival of the seventh month, after the Children of Israel had reached their towns, the People assembled like one man at jerusalem. Then ]eshua»ben~]osadok arose with his brother Priests, and Zerubabel-ben·· Shalthial, and his brothers, and built an Altar to the GOD of Israel, to offer Burnt-offerings upon, in accord-
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the Bullion at weight alone, the Gold e uals il 3oo,ooo sterling English, and the Slver, 2o,ooo. But at the eriod of Ezra th (pe pur- chasing power woul be many times more. This shows the commercial position attained by the jews, for a part alone of them returned, and few, if any, of the Ten Tribes, as the record shows The position these Captives lhad also attained under the Baby onian Despotlsm, or Medo-Persian Commonwealth, is a witness to the high intellectual capacity and civilization ofthe Hebrew race, compared to all the nations around them, even under the disadvantages of being a conquered and enslaved people, and to our day they retain the same mental vigour.-F. F. ance with the record in the Law of Moses, the MAN of GOD. And they 3 built the Altar on its own founda- tion, although fear was upon them from the people of the Countries, and offered Burnt-Offerings on it to the Even-Livmo at the morning and evening. They also made the 4 Feast of Tabernacles, according to the Records, and Offerings day by day in number as the Decree com— mands, day by day. After that for the perpetual Offer-
ings, and the New Moons, and all the Holy Festivals of the EVER- LXVING, and for every one who offered of free will to the EVER- uvmo. They began from the first day of the seventh month to offer Burnt·Oifei-ings to the Evan-1.1v1Nc although the foundation of the Temple of the EvER·L1v1NG was not yet laid. They also gave money to the stone·cutters and carpenters, and food and drink to the Zidonians and the Tzurites to bring cedar wood from Lebanon by sea to joppa, in accordance with the Grant of Koresh King of the Persians to them. iflrhuilhing the Glrmplr. And in the second year of their
arrival at the HOUSE of GOD in jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubabel—ben·Shalthial, and jeshua- ben·josadak, and the rest of their friends, the Priests and Levites, and all who had come from the Captivity to jerusalem, and they appointed the Levites from twenty years of age and upwards, to superintend the works at the House of the Even-Livmo. He then appointed joshua his son, and- his friend Kadmiel, and his son, sons of Hodaviah, to superin- tend together the execution of the works at the House of the EVER- L1V1NG GOD, with the sons of Henadad, and their sons and rela- tives, the Levites. When they laid the foundations of the buildings of the Temple of the Even-Lrvmo, the Priests stood robed and with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the EVER-LIVING, according to the arrangement of David king of Israel and responded: ‘ Praise and thank the LIFE, For He is good ; For His Mercy endures for ever oxo IO II
