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 4:7
4:7 And during the reign
of Artaxerxes, Bishlam,
Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues
wrote to King Artaxerxes
of Persia. This letter
was first written in Aramaic but then translated.
[Aramaic:]
Ezra 5:2
5:2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak began
to rebuild the temple of God in Jerusalem. The prophets of God were with them, supporting them.
Ezra 6:12
6:12 May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation
who reaches out
to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”
Ezra 6:22
6:22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the
Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion
of the king of Assyria
toward them, so that he assisted
them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.
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 7:26
7:26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely
liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”
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 8:35
8:35 The exiles who were returning from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel – twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven male lambs, along with twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
Ezra 9:15
9:15 O
Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt
no one can really stand before you.”
Ezra 10:9
10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.
Ezra 10:14
10:14 Let our leaders take steps
on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”