Ezra 7:19
Ver. 19. The vessels also that were given thee for the service of the house of thy God,.... These were vessels of silver, basins of gold, and vessels of fine copper; not what formerly belonged to the temple, they were delivered by Cyrus to Sheshbazzar; but what the present king and his counsellors freely offered at this time, see Ezr 8:25, those
deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem; perfect and complete, the full number of them, as the word signifies {t}; meaning not to be delivered before him, or in his presence, as a witness thereof, but that they should be dedicated and devoted to his service, who was worshipped in the temple at Jerusalem, and by the inhabitants of it; he seems as if he thought him a topical deity, the God of that particular place, which was the notion of the Heathens, see 1Ki 20:23, though he also speaks of him as the God of heaven.
{t} Mlvh "integra et pleno numero redde", Michaelis.