Ezra 1:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

Whose spirit

General references

Exodus 35:21

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

Whose spirit

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he caused it to be proclaimed throughout all his empire, yea and by writing also, saying,

And the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to finish the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia that he made a proclamation throughout all this kingdom, and thereto to set it up in writing, saying,

I gat me up in the night season, and a few men with me: for I told no man what God had given me in my heart to do at Jerusalem. And there was not one beast with me, save it that I rode upon.

A man may well purpose a thing in his heart; but the answer of the tongue cometh of the LORD.

Thanks be unto God, which put in the heart of Titus the same good mind toward you.

For it is God which worketh in you both the will and also the deed, even of good will.

Err not, my dear brethren.

Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: He that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil seeth not God.

General references

And they went - as many as their hearts couraged them and as many as their spirits made them willing - and brought heave offerings unto the LORD, to the making of the tabernacle of witness and for all his uses and for the holy vestments.

And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.