Ezra 3:9
3:9 So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives,
1 Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah
2 ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives
3 the Levites.
Ezra 3:11
3:11 With antiphonal response they sang,
4 praising and glorifying the
Lord:
“For he is good;
his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”
All the people gave a loud 5 shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.
Ezra 4:2
4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders
6 and said to them, “Let us help you build,
7 for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him
8 from the time
9 of King Esarhaddon
10 of Assyria, who brought us here.”
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Ezra 7:28
7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the
Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8:33
8:33 On the fourth day we weighed out the silver, the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God into the care
12 of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest, and Eleazar son of Phinehas, who were accompanied by Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui, who were Levites.
Ezra 9:9
9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us
13 to restore the temple of our God and to raise
14 up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
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1 tn Heb “brothers.”
2 sn The name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “brothers.”
4 tn Heb “they answered.”
5 tn Heb “great.”
7 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.” So also in v. 3.
8 tn Heb “Let us build with you.”
9 tc The translation reads with the Qere, a Qumran MS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Arabic version וְלוֹ (vÿlo, “and him”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, וְלֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).
10 tn Heb “days.”
11 sn Esarhaddon was king of Assyria ca. 681-669 b.c.
12 sn The Assyrian policy had been to resettle Samaria with peoples from other areas (cf. 2 Kgs 17:24-34). These immigrants acknowledged Yahweh as well as other deities in some cases. The Jews who returned from the Exile regarded them with suspicion and were not hospitable to their offer of help in rebuilding the temple.
10 tn Heb “upon the hand of.”
13 tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”
14 tn Heb “to cause to stand.”
15 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.