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 4:2

4:2 they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders ⁴  and said to them, “Let us help you build, ⁵  for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him ⁶  from the time ⁷  of King Esarhaddon ⁸  of Assyria, who brought us here.” ⁹ 

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, ¹⁰  and timbers are being placed in the walls. This work is being done with all diligence and is prospering in their hands.

Ezra 6:3

6:3 In the first year of his reign, ¹¹  King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: ¹²  ‘Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place. ¹³  Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety ¹⁴  feet, ¹⁵ 

Ezra 6:8-9

6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. ¹⁶  6:9 Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by ¹⁷  the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect,

Ezra 6:14

6:14 The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time ¹⁸  Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

Ezra 7:21

7:21 “I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of ¹⁹  Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you –

Ezra 7:28

7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

Ezra 8:17

8:17 I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them ²⁰  what to say to Iddo and his relatives, ²¹  who were the temple servants in ²²  Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God.

Ezra 8:22

8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy ²³  along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger ²⁴  is against everyone who forsakes him.”

Ezra 8:33

8:33 On the fourth day we weighed out the silver, the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God into the care ²⁵  of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest, and Eleazar son of Phinehas, who were accompanied by Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui, who were Levites.

Ezra 8:35

8:35 The exiles who were returning from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel – twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven male lambs, along with twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

Ezra 10:2

10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, ²⁶  addressed Ezra:

“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying ²⁷  foreign women from the local peoples. ²⁸  Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. ²⁹ 

Ezra 10:9

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

Ezra 10:14

10:14 Let our leaders take steps ³⁰  on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

[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.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.” So also in v. 3.

[4:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Let us build with you.”

[4:2]  ⁶ tc The translation reads with the Qere, a Qumran MS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Arabic version וְלוֹ (vÿlo, “and him”) rather than the Kethib of the MT, וְלֹא (vÿlo’, “and not”).

[4:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “days.”

[4:2]  ⁸ sn Esarhaddon was king of Assyria ca. 681-669 b.c.

[4:2]  ⁹ sn The Assyrian policy had been to resettle Samaria with peoples from other areas (cf. 2 Kgs 17:24-34). These immigrants acknowledged Yahweh as well as other deities in some cases. The Jews who returned from the Exile regarded them with suspicion and were not hospitable to their offer of help in rebuilding the temple.

[5:8]  ⁷ tn Aram “stones of rolling.” The reference is apparently to stones too large to carry.

[6:3]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “In the first year of Cyrus the king.”

[6:3]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[6:3]  ¹² tn Aram “raised”; or perhaps “retained” (so NASB; cf. NLT), referring to the original foundations of Solomon’s temple.

[6:3]  ¹³ tc The Syriac Peshitta reads “twenty cubits” here, a measurement probably derived from dimensions given elsewhere for Solomon’s temple. According to 1 Kgs 6:2 the dimensions of the Solomonic temple were as follows: length, 60 cubits; width, 20 cubits; height, 30 cubits. Since one would expect the dimensions cited in Ezra 6:3 to correspond to those of Solomon’s temple, it is odd that no dimension for length is provided. The Syriac has apparently harmonized the width dimension provided here (“twenty cubits”) to that given in 1 Kgs 6:2.

[6:3]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “Its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[6:8]  ¹³ tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[6:9]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “according to the word of.”

[6:14]  ¹⁹ tn Aram “in” or “by,” in the sense of accompaniment.

[7:21]  ²² tn Aram “who are in.”

[8:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “I placed in their mouth words.”

[8:17]  ²⁶ 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]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in the place called.” This phrase has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:22]  ²⁸ tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

[8:22]  ²⁹ tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).

[8:33]  ³¹ tn Heb “upon the hand of.”

[10:2]  ³⁴ tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.

[10:2]  ³⁵ tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.

[10:2]  ³⁶ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[10:2]  ³⁷ tn Heb “upon this.”

[10:14]  ³⁷ tn Heb “stand.”