Ezra 7:20

20 which we have given you. Use the royal treasury to pay for anything else you need for the Temple of your God.

Ezra 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 7:20

And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God,
which thou shall have occasion to bestow
For the beautifying and ornamenting the temple, ( Ezra 7:27 ) ,

bestow it out of the king's treasure house;
where the money collected by tribute, tax, and custom, was deposited; his exchequer, as it may be called, see ( Ezra 6:8 ) .

Ezra 7:20 In-Context

18 You and your fellow Jews may spend the silver and gold left over as you want and as God wishes.

19 Take to the God of Jerusalem all the utensils for worship in the Temple of your God,

20 which we have given you. Use the royal treasury to pay for anything else you need for the Temple of your God.

21 Now I, King Artaxerxes, give this order to all the men in charge of the treasury of Trans-Euphrates: Give Ezra, a priest and a teacher of the Law of the God of heaven, whatever he asks for.

22 Give him up to seventy-five hundred pounds of silver, six hundred bushels of wheat, six hundred gallons of wine, and six hundred gallons of olive oil. And give him as much salt as he wants.