Reference: Treasure, Treasury, Treasurer
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TREASURE, TREASURY, TREASURER
1. In OT 'treasure' and 'treasury' stand for various Heb. terms, but both words usually render '
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Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.
While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.
So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. They must go into the Lord's treasury."
But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord's house.
all the storage cities that belonged to him, and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.
King Cyrus of Persia entrusted them to Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the leader of the Judahite exiles.
As they were able, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly robes.
"I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you --
Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,
This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: "Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, and tell him:
Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other authorities of the province to attend the dedication of the statue that he had erected. So the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial authorities assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected. They were standing in front of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had erected.
As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
Then he said to them, "Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old."
Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
The chief priests took the silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money."
Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.
He called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.
(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship,
Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.