Ezra 3:9

3:9 So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives, ¹  Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah ² ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives ³  the Levites.

Ezra 3:11

3:11 With antiphonal response they sang, ⁴  praising and glorifying the Lord:

“For he is good;

his loyal love toward Israel is forever.”

All the people gave a loud ⁵  shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.

Ezra 4:17

4:17 The king sent the following response:

“To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and other parts of Trans-Euphrates: Greetings! ⁶ 

Ezra 4:23

4:23 Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem ⁷  and stopped them with threat of armed force. ⁸ 

Ezra 5:3

5:3 At that time Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues came to them and asked, “Who gave you authority ⁹  to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?” ¹⁰ 

Ezra 5:8

5:8 Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the temple of the great God. It is being built with large stones, ¹¹  and timbers are being placed in the walls. This work is being done with all diligence and is prospering in their hands.

Ezra 5:12

5:12 But after our ancestors ¹²  angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands ¹³  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. ¹⁴ 

Ezra 6:5

6:5 Furthermore let the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, be returned and brought to their proper place in the temple in Jerusalem. Let them be deposited in the temple of God.’

Ezra 9:9

9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us ¹⁵  to restore the temple of our God and to raise ¹⁶  up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem. ¹⁷ 

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. ¹⁸ 

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 ¹⁹  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

[3:9]  ¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:9]  ² sn The name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[3:9]  ³ tn Heb “brothers.”

[3:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “they answered.”

[3:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “great.”

[4:17]  ⁷ tn Aram “peace.”

[4:23]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “to Jerusalem against the Jews.”

[4:23]  ¹¹ tn Aram “by force and power,” a hendiadys.

[5:3]  ¹³ tn Aram “who placed to you a command?” So also v. 9.

[5:3]  ¹⁴ tn The exact meaning of the Aramaic word אֻשַּׁרְנָא (’ussarna’) here and in v. 9 is uncertain (BDB 1083 s.v.). The LXX and Vulgate understand it to mean “wall.” Here it is used in collocation with בַּיְתָא (bayta’, “house” as the temple of God), while in 5:3, 9 it is used in parallelism with this term. It might be related to the Assyrian noun ashurru (“wall”) or ashru (“sanctuary”; so BDB). F. Rosenthal, who translates the word “furnishings,” thinks that it probably enters Aramaic from Persian (Grammar, 62-63, §189).

[5:8]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “stones of rolling.” The reference is apparently to stones too large to carry.

[5:12]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “fathers.”

[5:12]  ²⁰ tn Aram “hand” (singular).

[5:12]  ²¹ sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.

[9:9]  ²² tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”

[9:9]  ²³ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[9:9]  ²⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

[10:6]  ²⁸ tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.