Ezra 7:20 (DBY)

Passage

And whatever 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.

Nearby Context

Ezra 7:18 And whatever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do according to the will of your God.

Ezra 7:19 And the vessels that have been given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:20 And whatever 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.

Ezra 7:21 And I, I Artaxerxes the king, do give orders to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest and scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall require of you, it be done diligently,

Ezra 7:22 unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing [how much].

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "whatever", "shall", "needful", "house", "thou", "shalt", "occasion", and "bestow". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "whatever" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 19's "And the vessels that have been given..." into verse 21's "And I I Artaxerxes the king do...", so "whatever" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Ezra context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "whatever" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.