Ezra 2:59
2:59 These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify their family connection or their ancestry, as to whether they really were from Israel):
Ezra 2:68
2:68 When they came to the
Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders
offered voluntary offerings for the temple of God in order to rebuild
it on its site.
Ezra 7:27
7:27 Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem!
Ezra 8:28-29
8:28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the
Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the
Lord, the God of your fathers.
8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem,
in the storerooms of the temple of the
Lord.”
Ezra 10:11
10:11 Now give praise to the
Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents
and from these foreign wives.”