Ezra 3:7
Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple
3:7 So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
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 8:17
8:17 I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them
what to say to Iddo and his relatives,
who were the temple servants in
Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God.
Ezra 9:11
9:11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words:
‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents!
With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.
Ezra 10:6
10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed
there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.