Ezra 3:6

3:6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. However, the Lord’s temple was not at that time established. ¹ 

Ezra 3:12

3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders ²  – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established ³  – were weeping loudly, ⁴  and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

Ezra 5:12

5:12 But after our ancestors ⁵  angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands ⁶  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. ⁷ 

Ezra 7:14

7:14 You are authorized ⁸  by the king and his seven advisers to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your possession, ⁹ 

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, ¹⁰  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.

Ezra 9:4

9:4 Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe ¹¹  gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. ¹²  Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.

Ezra 9:13

9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint ¹³  toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

[3:6]  ¹ tn Or “the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.

[3:12]  ² tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[3:12]  ³ sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

[3:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[5:12]  ³ tn Aram “fathers.”

[5:12]  ⁴ tn Aram “hand” (singular).

[5:12]  ⁵ sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.

[7:14]  ⁴ tn Aram “sent.”

[7:14]  ⁵ tn Aram “in your hand.”

[8:29]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “who trembled at the words of the God of Israel.”

[9:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the exile”; the words “the people” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[9:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).