Ezra 2:63
2:63 The governor
instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult
the Urim and Thummim.
Ezra 3:13
3:13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly
that the sound was heard a long way off.
Ezra 4:21
4:21 Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct.
Ezra 4:24
4:24 So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.
Ezra 5:5
5:5 But God was watching over
the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped
until a report could be dispatched
to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.
Ezra 6:15
6:15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth
year of the reign of King Darius.
Ezra 8:29
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 9:4
9:4 Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe
gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile.
Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.
Ezra 9:6
9:6 I prayed,
“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
Ezra 9:14
9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?