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- The richest contributions came from those crowded Jewish settlements in Mesopotamia and Babylon, to which 'the dispersed' had originally been transported. Here special treasuries for their reception had been built in the cities of Nisibis and Nehardea, where a large armed escort annually accompanied the 'ambassadors' to Palestine.
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Apr 24, 2020 · The English word "treasury" is translated from the Heb. "אוֹצָר", "otsar". (Strong's Heb. 214). The definition is treasure, store, treasury, or storehouse. Source: Biblehub. It was the collection of all coin and goods for the operation of the tabernacle. Excerpt from the Benson Commentary -
1. Location. Solomon’s Temple contained a place for storing gifts of gold and silver dedicated to the use of the house of the Lord (1 Kings 7:51). Most ancient sanctuaries had a treasury attached to them. The opisthodomos served as the treasury for the Parthenon at Athens.
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Tribute money, collected not only from Israelite males, but also from proselytes and slaves, was by far the largest source of revenue for Jerusalem's temple. Other sources of support, however, also contributed vast sums to the treasury. Besides votive offerings, and the sale of surplus incense, flour, and so on, the people were wont on the Sabbaths...
The Temple revenues were in the first place devoted to the purchase of all public sacrifices, that is, those offered in the name of the whole congregation of Israel, such as the morning and evening sacrifices, the festive sacrifices, and so on. Money given to the temple treasury also defrayed the cost of all necessary services for the sanctuary. Al...
Peter, while visiting Capernaum in late 29 A.D., is approached by those who collect the annual temple (tribute) money. After affirming his Master does pay the tax he tells Jesus what happened. The Lord then offers a unique solution to this taxing problem! The money that miraculously appeared in the fish's mouth was a silver Greek stater coin. The c...
The only exceptions were metals, gold, silver, and the vessels of brass and iron; these were to be brought into the treasury of the Lord, i.e., the treasury of the tabernacle, as being holy to the Lord (Joshua 6:19; vid., Numbers 31:54).
The temple treasury was a storehouse (Hebrew אוצר 'otsar) first of the tabernacle then of the Jerusalem Temples mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The term "storehouse" is generic, and also occurs later in accounts of life in Roman Palestine where the otzar was a tax-collector's grainhouse.
Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. 2 Kings 12:18. Verse Concepts. Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the ...
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7 They gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze and a hundred thousand talents of iron. 8 Anyone who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the Lord in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.
