TOPICAL BIBLE
Liberality
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Ezra 6:20For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.Ezra 6:21The children of Israel who had come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,Ezra 6:22and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.Ezra 7:13I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.Ezra 7:14Because you are sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,Ezra 7:15and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,Ezra 7:16and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;Ezra 7:17therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.Ezra 7:18Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that after the will of your God.Ezra 7:19The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.Ezra 7:20Whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.Ezra 7:21I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,Ezra 7:22to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred measures of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.Ezra 7:23Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?Ezra 7:24Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.Ezra 7:25You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.Ezra 7:26Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.Ezra 7:27Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;Ezra 8:24Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,Ezra 8:25and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:Ezra 8:26I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;Ezra 8:27and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.Ezra 8:28I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.Ezra 8:29Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of Yahweh.”Ezra 8:30So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.Ezra 8:31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.Ezra 8:32We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.Ezra 8:33On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into 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, the Levite;Ezra 8:34the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.Ezra 8:35The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.Ezra 8:36They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.Ezra 10:32Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.Ezra 10:33Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.Ezra 10:34Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,Ezra 10:35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,Ezra 10:36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,Ezra 10:37Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,Ezra 10:38and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,Ezra 10:39and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,Psalm 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.Psalm 41:2Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.Psalm 41:3Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.Psalm 76:11Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.Psalm 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.Psalm 132:1A Song of Ascents. Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,Psalm 132:2how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:Psalm 132:3“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;Psalm 132:4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;Psalm 132:5until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”Proverbs 3:9Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:Proverbs 3:10so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.Proverbs 11:24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.Proverbs 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.Proverbs 13:7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.Proverbs 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.Proverbs 19:6Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.Proverbs 21:26There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.Proverbs 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.