Ezra 6:10

Green's Literal Translation

so that they may offer sacrifices of sweet odor to the God of Heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that they can offer sacrifices of pleasing aroma to the God of the heavens and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

New Century Version
Then they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven, and they may pray for the life of the king and his sons.

New English Translation
so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.

Amplified Bible
so that they may offer pleasing (sweet-smelling) sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

New American Standard Bible
so that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

World English Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
That they may haue to offer sweete odours vnto the God of heauen, and praye for the Kings life, and for his sonnes.

Legacy Standard Bible
that they may bring sweet-smelling sacrifices near to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Berean Standard Bible
Then they will be able to offer sacrifices of a sweet aroma to the God of heaven and to pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

Contemporary English Version
I want them to be able to offer pleasing sacrifices to God and to pray for me and my family.

Complete Jewish Bible
so that they can offer sacrifices with a fragrant aroma to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Darby Translation
that they may present sweet odours to the God of the heavens, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.

Easy-to-Read Version
Give them to the Jewish priests so that they may offer sacrifices that please the God of heaven. Give these things so that the priests may pray for me and my sons.

George Lamsa Translation
That they may offer sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the king and his sons.

Good News Translation
This is to be done so that they can offer sacrifices that are acceptable to the God of Heaven and pray for his blessing on me and my sons.

Lexham English Bible
that they may offer incense offerings to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that they maye offre swete sauoures vnto ye God of heauen, and praye for the kynges lyfe, and for his children.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may haue to offer sweete sauours vnto the God of heauen, & pray for the kinges lyfe, and for his children.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

King James Version (1611)
That they may offer sacrifices of sweet sauours vnto the God of heauen, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sonnes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that they may offer sweet savours to the God of heaven, and that they may pray for the life of the king and his sons.

English Revised Version
that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savour unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And offre thei offryngis to God of heuene; and preye thei for the lijf of the kyng and of hise sones.

Update Bible Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New King James Version
that they may offer sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

New Living Translation
Then they will be able to offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the welfare of the king and his sons.

New Life Bible
This is so they may give pleasing gifts in worship to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

New Revised Standard
so that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
that they may be offering sweet-smelling sacrifices unto the God of the heavens, - and be praying for the life of the king, and his sons.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let them offer oblations to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his children.

Revised Standard Version
that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Young's Literal Translation
that they be bringing near sweet savours to the God of heaven, and praying for the life of the king, and of his sons.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Darius the king made a decree, and they searched in the house of the scrolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. ² And there was found in Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a scroll. And in it was a record written thus: ³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king placed a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices and let the foundations of it be strongly laid. Its height shallbe sixty cubits; its breadth sixty cubits; ⁴ with three layers of rolling stones, and a layer of new timber. And let the expenses be given out of the king's house. ⁵ And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple in Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be given back and go to the temple in Jerusalem, to their place. And put them in the house of God. ⁶ Now, Tatnai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-boznai, and your associates, the officials who are Beyond the River, you be far from there. ⁷ Let the work of this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God in its place. ⁸ Also I make a decree as to what you shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of that house of God, that the exact expense be given to these men from the king's property, out of the tax Beyond the River, so that they may not haveto cease working. ⁹ And that which they need, both young bulls and rams and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of Heaven; wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as say the priests in Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail, ¹⁰ so that they may offer sacrifices of sweet odor to the God of Heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sweet savours: Chal, rest, Genesis 8:21, Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 1:13, Ephesians 5:2

pray: Ezra 7:23, Jeremiah 29:7, 1 Timothy 2:1, 1 Timothy 2:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:17 - General Exodus 8:28 - entreat Leviticus 4:31 - a sweet 1 Kings 1:47 - bless Ezra 5:8 - the great God Ezra 7:17 - buy speedily Daniel 2:46 - and sweet Zechariah 7:2 - they Acts 8:24 - Pray Revelation 16:11 - the God

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven,.... Such as will be acceptable to him, Genesis 8:21

and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons; prayer being wont to be made at the time of the morning and evening incense; and the Jews used to pray for other people besides themselves, and especially when desired, and particularly for kings and civil magistrates, to whom they were subject, see Jeremiah 29:7, the sons of Darius Hystaspis, for whose life, as well as his own, he would have prayer made, were, according to Herodotus d, three by his first wife, the daughter of Gobryas, before he began to reign, the eldest of which was Artobazanes; which sons must be here meant, since this was towards the beginning of his reign; he had afterwards four more by Atossa the daughter of Cyrus, the eldest of which was Xerxes, who succeeded him: many of the Heathens had an high opinion of the God of the Jews, and of their prayers to him for them; even the Emperor Julian e styles him the best of all the gods, and desired the Jews to pray to him for the welfare of his kingdom; nor need it seem strange that Darius should desire the same, since he was a devout prince; his father Hystaspes is supposed by some to be the same that was one of the most famous among the Persian Magi, or ministers in sacred things; and Darius himself had so great a veneration for the men of that sacred order, that he commanded that it should be put upon his sepulchral monument, that he was master of the Magi f; and by his familiarity with the priests of Egypt, and learning their divinity, had the honour, while alive, to have deity ascribed to him g.

d Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 2. e Opera, par. 2. ep. 25. p. 153. f Porphyr. de abstinentia, l. 4, c. 16. g Diodor. Sic. l. 1. p. 85.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 6:10. And pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. — Even heathens believed that offerings made in their behalf to the God of the Jews would be available. And this principle has had considerable influence in certain states where there was even a form of religion established by the law, to induce them to tolerate other forms, that the state might have the benefit of their prayers.