Ezra 8:28

28 And I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors.

Ezra 8:28 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 8:28

And I said unto them, ye are holy unto the Lord, the vessels
are holy also
As they were dedicated and set apart to holy service, so the vessels were sacred to holy uses, and therefore not to be converted to any other:

and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God
of your fathers:
and therefore not to be made use of but in his service.

Ezra 8:28 In-Context

26 I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred vessels of silver, one hundred talents of gold,

27 twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two vessels of good polished bronze as precious as gold.

28 And I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors.

29 Guard and look after [them] until you weigh [them] before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the {families} of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh."

30 So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fathers"