Ezra 8:15
The Exiles Travel to Jerusalem
8:15 I had them assemble at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I observed that the people and the priests were present, but I found no Levites there.
Ezra 2:28
2:28 the men of Bethel and Ai: 223;
Ezra 9:12
9:12 Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children
forever.’
Ezra 3:1
The Altar is Rebuilt
3:1 When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their towns, the people assembled in Jerusalem.
Ezra 5:15
5:15 He said to him, “Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location.”
Ezra 7:7
7:7 In the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, Ezra brought
up to Jerusalem
some of the Israelites and some of the priests, the Levites, the attendants, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
Ezra 7:9
7:9 On the first day of the first month he had determined to make
the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem,
for the good hand of his God was on him.
Ezra 9:5
9:5 At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.
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.
Ezra 3:8
3:8 In the second year after they had come to the temple of God in Jerusalem,
in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak initiated the work,
along with the rest of their associates,
the priests and the Levites, and all those who were coming to Jerusalem from the exile. They appointed
the Levites who were at least twenty years old
to take charge of the work on the
Lord’s temple.