29Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; …
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. …
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. …
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-30)We have here an account of the particular care which Ezra took of the treasure he had with him, that belonged to God’s sanctuary, Observe, 1. Having committed the keeping of it to God, he committed the keeping of it to proper men, whose business it was to watch it, though without God they would have waked in vain. Note, Our prayers must always be seconded with our endeavours; the care of Christ’s…
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