Ezra Chapter 6 verse 10 Holy Bible
that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.
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that they may present sweet odours to the God of the heavens, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
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That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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that they be bringing near sweet savours to the God of heaven, and praying for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours. Either incense, as in Daniel 2:46, or "sacrifices that are pleasing and acceptable" (see Genesis 8:21; Numbers 28:2). And pray for the life of the king. The Jews have always maintained the practice of praying for the civil ruler of any country in which they have had their abode. Jeremiah s exhortation to "seek the peace" of Babylon (Numbers 29:7) was understood in this way, and the tradition has been handed down even to the present day. Under monarchs so favour-able to them as the Achaemenian Persians the duty would certainly not have been neglected. And of his sons. In Persia "the royal house" was the special object of regard. Individual kings must die, but the house would go on (see the speech of Artemisia to Xerxes in 'Herod.,' 8:102; and compare the references to the "gods of the royal house" in the Inscriptions). Kings took special care of their sons. Thus Cyrus sent Cambyses back to Persia when he was about to attack the Massagetae ('Herod.,' 1:208), and Xerxes gave several of his sons into the charge of Artemisia, to convey them by ship to Asia, while he himself took the long and perilous journey by land (ibid. 8:103).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) That they may offer sacrifices . . . and pray for the life of the king.--Two ends are to be answered: the God of heaven is to be honoured, and the dynasty of Darius interceded for by the Jews. (Comp. Jeremiah 29:7.)Of sweet savours.--The word occurs again only in Daniel 2:46, and there is translated "sweet odours," meaning incense. The connection of this with the prayer following justifies the same translation here, and, moreover, indicates under what good instruction the decree was drawn up.
