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Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

Verse ConceptsHuman WillProclamationsImpulsesWords To Individuals FulfilledThe First Temple

And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.

Verse ConceptsGiving To The Poor

And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming PeopleTaking A Wife

The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty,

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And Up

Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsCoinageGoldStoringCoinsOne HundredPriests GarmentsLarge DenominationsMoney For The Temple

They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAt Morning And EveningSetting Up The Bronze AltarFear Of Enemies

And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.

Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of TabernaclesDaily Duty

Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsJudaismMaturity, PhysicalMiddle AgeTwentyAge Ranges Of Levites

And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.

Verse ConceptsPraiseAttitudes Of PraiseRevival, Nature OfThanksgivingVoicesShouting For JoyEternal BlessingThose Singing Praise

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

Verse ConceptsecstasyRejoicing In God's WorksThe First Temple

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Discriminationdistance

The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

Verse ConceptsJudges

So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

Verse ConceptsArchivesBooksStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsHistorical Books

So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodRebuilding The Templeconstruction

But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheWatchfulness, DivineGod Seeing The Righteous

And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthServants Of The LordThe Second Templerebuilding

But when the God of heaven was moved to wrath by our fathers, he gave them up into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the Chaldaean, who sent destruction on this house and took the people away into Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToDestruction Of The TempleExile Of Judah To Babylon

And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple which was in Jerusalem, and put into the house of his god in Babylon, these Cyrus the king took from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler;

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonGovernorsTaking Mixed MetalsTemple Utensils Removed

So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.

Verse ConceptsArchivesStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsThe King's Orders

Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.

Verse ConceptsAdministrationSeeking For Concrete ThingsHistorical BooksThe King's OrdersVolunteering

And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:

Verse ConceptsArchivesScrollsHistorical Books

And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.

Verse ConceptsAdministrationArtaxerxes The KingNamed Prophets Of The LordGay Marriageprospering

And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12

Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingTimes Of People

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonGiving To OthersHand Of GodPriests, Function In Ot TimesScribesGod's HandScholarsGod's Hands On PeopleStudying The Law

And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands On People

Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.

Verse ConceptsReturn From BabylonArtaxerxes The KingTimes Of People

So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfFasting, Accompanied ByFastingFasting And Prayer

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

Verse ConceptsCaravansHand Of GodRoadsDivine Protection, Examples OfGod's HandGod Saving From EnemiesGod's Hands On PeopleEnemy Attacks

And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;

Verse ConceptsThe Fourth Day Of The WeekDay 4

All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.

And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGoatsThe Number TwelveSacrifice, In OtSin OfferingThe Number NinetyTwelve TribesTwelve AnimalsSeventiesNinetiesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsBeyond The River

Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And God's NatureMiscegenation (racial Intermarriage)TremblingAction Until Evening

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

Verse ConceptsEvil AssociationsIntermarriageWill God Be Angry?

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsGesturesGuilt, Human Aspects OfHouse Of GodLargenessPrayer, As Asking GodRegretRepentance, Examples OfRevival, CorporateConviction Of SinReligious AwakeningsTearsNamed Individuals Who Prayedconfessing

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

Verse ConceptsAbstinence as a disciplineFasting, Nature OfSorrowWaterFasting In Mourning

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

Verse ConceptsRainWeather, God's Sovereignty OverMonth 9Groups TremblingWeather Causing Sufferings