Like any red-blooded American growing up in the 80s or 90s, I watched the prices right when I was home sick from school,

and even to this day, I cannot believe how generous those prizes were on that show.

And likewise, right now we're looking at how wildly generous

King Arteserxes was to Ezra and the returning exiles with a letter he

wrote to them in Ezra Chapter 7. We started on it yesterday. We're going to finish that letter today.

I'm going to have Jeff play some music and we'll get after it. So, V.

You and your brother Jews may then do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold in accordance

with the will of your God God delivered to the God of Jerusalem

all the articles entrusted to you for worship in the temple of your God and anything else needed

for the temple of your God that you may have occasion to supply you may provide from the Royal Treasury.

This is unheard of blessing.

The doors just keep sliding open and the prize here just keeps getting better

to the point of insane opulence beyond even what

ten-year-old me watching the price is right on a sick day could possibly imagine.

verse 21. Now I, King Artis Xerxes, who are all the treasurers of Trans Euphrates, that's the satropy, the province

that Jerusalem is within, to provide with diligence whatever Ezra the priest, a teacher of the

law of the God of heaven may ask of you up to a

hundred talents of silver a hundred cords of wheat a hundred baths of wine a

hundred baths of olive oil and salt without limit a lot of times we go and look at the

measurements and the units we're just going to kind of roll

pass this and be like so a lot. Whatever the God of heaven is prescribed let it be done with

diligence for the temple of the God of heaven why should there be wrath against the

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