Resistance to Rebuilding the Temple 1 Now whenthe adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of theLordGod of Israel, 2 they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers’houses,and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we seek your God as youdo;and we […]
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Ezra 5
Restoration of the Temple Resumed 1 Then the prophetHaggai andZechariah the son of Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews whowerein Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel,whowasover them. 2 SoZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God whichisin […]
Ezra 6
The Decree of Darius 1 Then King Darius issued a decree,and a search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. 2 And at Achmetha, in the palace thatisin the province ofMedia, a scroll was found, and in it a recordwaswritten thus: 3 In the first year of King Cyrus, King […]
Ezra 7
The Arrival of Ezra 1 Now after these things, in the reign ofArtaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra theson of Seraiah,the son of Azariah, the son ofHilkiah, 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son […]
Ezra 8
Heads of Families Who Returned with Ezra 1 Thesearethe heads of their fathers’houses,andthisisthe genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes: 2 of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David,Hattush; 3 of the sons of Shecaniah, of the […]
Ezra 9
Intermarriage with Pagans 1 When these things were done, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have notseparated themselves from the peoples of the lands,with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the […]
Ezra 10
Confession of Improper Marriages 1 Nowwhile Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing downbefore the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept verybitterly. 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel,oneof the sons of Elam, spoke up and […]
II Chronicles 2
Solomon Prepares to Build the Temple 1 Then Solomondetermined to build a temple for the name of theLord, and a royal house for himself. 2 Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarrystonein the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them. 3 Then Solomon sent to Hiram king of […]
II Chronicles 3
Solomon Builds the Temple 1 NowSolomon began to build the house of theLordatJerusalem on Mount Moriah, wheretheLordhad appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor ofOrnan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build on the seconddayof the second month in the fourth year of his reign. […]
II Chronicles 4
Furnishings of the Temple 1 Moreover he madea bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height. 2 Then he made the Sea of castbronze,ten cubits from one brim to the other;itwascompletely round. Its heightwasfive cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 3 And under […]