Ezra 1:7

1:7 Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed ¹  in the temple of his gods.

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 ²  their family connection ³  or their ancestry, ⁴  as to whether they really were from Israel):

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. ⁵ 

Ezra 5:13

5:13 But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, ⁶  King Cyrus enacted a decree to rebuild this temple of God.

Ezra 5:16

5:16 Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment ⁷  it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’

Ezra 6:4

6:4 with three layers of large stones ⁸  and one ⁹  layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized ¹⁰  by the royal treasury. ¹¹ 

Ezra 6:16

6:16 The people ¹²  of Israel – the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles ¹³  – observed the dedication of this temple of God with joy.

Ezra 7:27

7:27 ¹⁴ 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 8:25

8:25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God – items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed.

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, ¹⁵  in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”

Ezra 8:36

8:36 Then they presented the decrees of the king to the king’s satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, who gave help to the people and to the temple of God.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and he gave them.”

[2:59]  ² tn Heb “relate.”

[2:59]  ³ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[2:59]  ⁴ tn Heb “their seed.”

[4:24]  ³ sn Darius I Hystaspes ruled Persia ca. 522–486 b.c.

[5:13]  ⁴ sn Cyrus was actually a Persian king, but when he conquered Babylon in 539 b.c. he apparently appropriated to himself the additional title “king of Babylon.” The Syriac Peshitta substitutes “Persia” for “Babylon” here, but this is probably a hyper-correction.

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Aram “from then and until now.”

[6:4]  ⁶ tn Aram “stones of rolling.”

[6:4]  ⁷ tc The translation follows the LXX reading חַד (khad, “one”) rather than the MT חֲדַת (khadat, “new”). If the MT reading “new” is understood to mean freshly cut timber that has not yet been seasoned it would seem to be an odd choice for construction material.

[6:4]  ⁸ tn Aram “let be given.”

[6:4]  ⁹ tn Aram “house.”

[6:16]  ⁷ tn Aram “sons of.”

[6:16]  ⁸ tn Aram “sons of the exile.”

[7:27]  ⁸ sn At this point the language of the book reverts from Aramaic (7:12-26) back to Hebrew.

[8:29]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.