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Nehemiah 7:70-72

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70 Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The 1governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics[a] of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas[b] of silver.[c]
71 And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.
72 2And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments.
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Nehemiah 7:70-72 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 7

Nehemiah having built the wall, and set up the doors, appointed two persons to take the charge of the city, and set watches for the safety of it, and to take special care about opening and shutting the gates of it, Ne 7:1-3, and concerned he was for the peopling of it, and having found a register of the first comers to it, gives their names, Ne 7:4-69 and some account of the freewill offerings made for the work they came about, Ne 7:70-73.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Footnotes 3

  • [a]. A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
  • [b]. A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
  • [c]. Probable reading; Hebrew lacks minas of silver
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