Ezra 1:3
1:3 Anyone from
his people among you (may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the
Lord God of Israel – he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 1:5
The Exiles Prepare to Return to Jerusalem
1:5 Then the leaders of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:2
3:2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak
and his priestly colleagues
and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his colleagues
started to build
the altar of the God of Israel so they could offer burnt offerings on it as required by
the law of Moses the man of God.
Ezra 4:2
4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders
and said to them, “Let us help you build,
for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him
from the time
of King Esarhaddon
of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Ezra 7:6
7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the
Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the
Lord his God was on him.
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.