Ezra 3:7

Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

3:7 So they provided money ¹  for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon ²  and Tyre, ³  so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport ⁴  at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

Ezra 8:17

8:17 I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them ⁵  what to say to Iddo and his relatives, ⁶  who were the temple servants in ⁷  Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God.

Ezra 9:1

A Prayer of Ezra

9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents ⁸  who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezra 9:11

9:11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words: ⁹  ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! ¹⁰  With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.

Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sins

10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly. ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “silver.”

[3:7]  ² map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ³ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[3:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the sea”

[8:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “I placed in their mouth words.”

[8:17]  ⁶ tc The translation reads with the LXX and Vulgate וְאֶחָיו (vÿ’ekhayv, “and his brethren” = “relatives”; so NCV, NLT) rather than the reading אָחִיו (’akhiyv, “his brother”) of the MT.

[8:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the place called.” This phrase has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[9:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.” So also in v. 2.

[9:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “through your servants the prophets, saying.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[10:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

[10:6]  ²¹ tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.