Nehemia 7:70

70 Een deel nu van de hoofden der vaderen gaven tot het werk. Hattirsatha gaf tot den schat, aan goud, duizend drachmen, vijftig sprengbekkens, vijfhonderd en dertig priesterrokken.

Nehemia 7:70 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 7:70

And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work
Of building the city and the temple, and for that service, ( Ezra 2:68 ) ,

the Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drachms of gold;
each of which was one pound sterling, and so amounted to so many pounds: of these "dracmons", or "darics", a Persian coin, mention is made in ( Ezra 2:69 ) , they were golden staters, or shekels and had their name as is said, not from Darius, the father of Xerxes, though it is certain, from Herodotus ^F4, that he coined golden money; but from some other king of the same name, more ancient ^F5, which must be Darius the Mede; and if they are the same with the Adarcon in ( Ezra 8:27 ) as they seem to be, then those in ( 1 Chronicles 29:7 ) were pieces of money not so called in the times of David, but of Ezra, the writer of that book: whether this Tirshatha was Zerubbabel, or Nehemiah, is not easy to say, since this donation is not the same with that in Ezra, not made at the same time nor are the gifts the same, nor the persons that gave them. Zerubbabel was Tirshatha when the Jews came out of Babylon, and Nehemiah now:

fifty basins;
which were vessels, in the which the blood of the sacrifices was received and out of which it was sprinkled:

five hundred and thirty priests' garments;
which were laid up in the wardrobe, and used on occasion.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 166.
F5 Scholiast. in Aristoph. Eccles. p. 741, 742. So Harpocration. Lexic. in voce (dardikov) , and Suidas on the same word.

Nehemia 7:70 In-Context

68 Hun paarden, zevenhonderd zes en dertig; hun muildieren, tweehonderd vijf en veertig;

69 Kemelen, vierhonderd vijf en dertig; ezelen, zes duizend, zevenhonderd en twintig.

70 Een deel nu van de hoofden der vaderen gaven tot het werk. Hattirsatha gaf tot den schat, aan goud, duizend drachmen, vijftig sprengbekkens, vijfhonderd en dertig priesterrokken.

71 En anderen van de hoofden der vaderen gaven tot den schat des werks, aan goud, twintig duizend drachmen, en aan zilver, twee duizend en tweehonderd ponden.

72 En wat de overigen des volks gaven, was aan goud, twintig duizend drachmen, en aan zilver, twee duizend mijnen, en zeven en zestig priesterrokken.