Text: Ezra 1:4
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 35:21-22
Subject: Freewill offerings for God's house
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy
Significance: Cyrus's edict in Ezra 1:4 commands neighbors to supply returning exiles with "silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering" (נְדָבָה, nedavah) for the house of God. This deliberately echoes Exodus 35:21-22, where the Israelites brought "freewill offerings" (נְדָבָה) of gold, silver, and materials for building the tabernacle, with "everyone whose heart stirred him" (כָּל אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר נְשָׂאוֹ לִבּוֹ). The Ezra narrator frames the return from exile as a new Exodus: just as Israel left Egypt with Egyptian wealth to build God's dwelling (Exod 12:35-36), so the returning exiles receive Gentile contributions to rebuild the temple. The shared vocabulary of freewill offerings connects both building projects under the same pattern of divine provision.
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Text: Exodus 35:21-22
OT Text Referred to: Ezra 1:4
Subject: Tithes and offerings
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy
Significance: This link traces the sacrificial system's development through Israel's Scriptures. What Exodus 35 establishes, Ezra 1 interprets, showing sacrifice as central to approaching God. Christ is the ultimate sacrifice, offering himself once for all (Heb 10:10-14), fulfilling and transcending all that the sacrificial system anticipated.