What Does Ezra 7:20 Mean in the King James?
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The repeated “bestow” makes release the bridge between a named need and a storehouse already full.
THE MEANING
A need in God’s house meets provision held in a treasury. The repeated act of giving is the hinge: what is stored becomes available when it is released. The verse speaks now wherever sacred work depends on provision moving into use.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s work must go without when the person carrying the need cannot supply it personally; the verse points to a storehouse beyond that person’s own resources.
THE ROOT
למנדב תנדב
lemindab tindab
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To give willingly or contribute freely.
Both “to bestow” and “bestow” come from נדב (nadav), the root of willing contribution. The same root names both the freewill gift and the willing giver, so the repeated giving carries the sense of abundance released into a concrete need.
ALSO GROWS
nedavah: A freewill offering or voluntary gift.
נְדָבָה
Ezra 7:16 uses this word for the people’s offering; here the same root describes giving from the king’s treasury.
nadiv: Willing or generous; also noble.
נָדִיב
This branch reveals the willing quality carried by the act of giving in the verse.
THE PATTERN
What is held in store becomes provision for a shared need through willing release.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.THE THREAD
And all the silver and gold that thou canst 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 7:16 uses the same root, נדב (nadav), in “freewill offering” and “offering willingly.” The royal treasury in this verse stands alongside those willing gifts as provision for the same house.
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