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Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.

Verse Conceptsdivision

Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the LORD God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfKingdomsThe Second TempleGod Be With You

Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With You

And whosoever remains in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsGiving To The PoorFree Will

Cyrus the king of Persia let them go out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsPrincesTreasurer

Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of the fathers' houses, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as you do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.

Verse ConceptsSamaritansExiled ForeignersTimes Of People

Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you have returned to us at Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and evil city, finishing its walls, and repairing its foundations.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsCityJudaismBuilding Jerusalem's WallRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, duty, or land tax, and the royal revenue will suffer.

Verse ConceptsTaxationTributes

Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.

Verse ConceptsNeglecting Duties

Let it be known to the king that we went to the house of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being built with cut stones, and its beams are being set in the walls. This work is being done diligently and succeeding through the people’s efforts.

Verse ConceptseagernessdiligenceBuilding Jerusalem's WallRebuilding The Templereinforcement

And also their names we have asked of them, to let thee know, that we might write the names of the men who are at their head.

And said unto him, Take these articles, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.

Verse ConceptsThe Second Temple

Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

Verse ConceptsArchivesStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsThe King's Orders

In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; its height threescore cubits, and its breadth threescore cubits;

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:

Verse ConceptsThree Parts Of Constructions

And also let the golden and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place, and place them in the house of God.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonTaking Mixed MetalsTemple Utensils Removed

Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

Verse Conceptsconstruction

And by me is made a decree concerning that which ye do with the elders of these Jews to build this house of God, that of the riches of the king, that are of the tribute beyond the river, speedily let the outlay be given to these men, that they cease not;

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes To

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the requirement of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOilWheatProviding WineOil On SacrificesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And GoatsSourness

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be impaled thereon; and let his house be made a pile of rubble because of this.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsGallowsDeath penaltyHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfPiercingsRubbish

And the God that has caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put their hand to alter it and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done diligently.

Verse ConceptsdiligenceA Place For God's Name

From me, is issued an edict, that, every one in my kingdom, of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, who is minded of his own freewill to go to Jerusalem, with thee, let him go.

Verse ConceptsProclamationsPeople WillingFree WillVolunteering

And whatsoever thing more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which is necessary for thee to spend, let the same be given out of the king's chamber.

Verse ConceptsUnlimitedness

"I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in [the province] Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence,

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The King

Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

Verse ConceptsdiligenceAction Lest God Be Angryrisk

And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsCivil authoritiesBanishmentGovernmentCivic DutiesImprisonmentsLoyaltyPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMagistratesCitizenshipConfiscationAnarchyJudicial PunishmentBreaking God's Law

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

Verse ConceptsenlightenmentLight, SpiritualRemnantGod Is GraciousPegsA Short TimeSurvivors FavouredShort Time For Actionrevivalspacegraciousness

As for us, we have turned back, and have let go thy commandments, to make contract with the people of these abominations. Wilt thou then be wroth at us, till we be utterly consumed, so that nothing remain, and there be no deliverance?

Verse ConceptsEvil AssociationsIntermarriageWill God Be Angry?

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningReverence, And God's NatureCovenant RelationshipsTremblingActual DivorcesLater Covenants With God

Then answered all the congregation and said with a loud voice, "Let it be done as thou hast said.

Verse ConceptsAgreeing For GoodVoices

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them who have taken foreign wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter is turned from us.

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNightPeople Of God, In OtWatchfulness, DivinePrayer, Offered WithSin ConfessedPay Attention O God!We Have Sinnedconfessinggrandfathers

O Lord, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfCupbearerReverence, And BlessingSuccessButlersFear Of God, Results OfProsperityPay Attention O God!Success Through GodGod As A Source Of Delight

And said unto the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Verse ConceptsGatesArchaeologyCitizens, Christian DutiesDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning Jerusalem

Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may let me pass over till I come into Judah;

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalGovernorsSafetyAccreditationBeyond The River

And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for I was graciously strengthened by my God.

Verse ConceptsBeamsFortificationsForestsCitadelsGrace, In OtHand Of GodGod's HandGod's Hands On People

Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are no more a reproach.

Verse ConceptsWallsDistressDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning JerusalemEliminating ShameRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

Verse ConceptsBeginningGod's HandGod's Hands On PeopleRebuilding Jerusalemconstructionrebuilding

Then I answered and said to them, "The God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem."

Verse ConceptsClaimsParticipation, In SinMemorials For PeopleForgetting PeopleSuccess Through GodNot Sharingjerusalemrebuilding

And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said, "Let them build on: if a fox go up, he shall break down their stony wall."

Verse ConceptsAmmonitesFoxes

Listen, our God, for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Verse ConceptsHeadsInferiorityCrying To GodLet Evil ReboundPay Attention O God!

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

Verse ConceptsCoveringUnforgivenessGod Not ForgivingGuiltAnger And Forgiveness

Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor during the day.

For there were those that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore let us get grain for them, that we may eat, and live.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine."

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, Examples OfBanks

But some said, "Let us borrow money of the king's tribute for our lands and vineyards.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfTaxationTaxTax To Be Paid

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, are lending them money and grain: I pray you, let us stop this charging interest.

Verse Conceptslent

Also I shook my lap and said, So let God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not keep this promise, even may he be shaken out this way and emptied. And all the congregation said, amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

Verse ConceptsAmenEmptyingPeople ShakingPeople Abandoning People

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Verse ConceptsTreacheryCharacter Of WickedMischiefMeeting People

And I send unto them messengers, saying, 'A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutLazinessCessationGreat Things

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

Verse ConceptsFalse AccusationsWicked ProphetsMan's Counsel

Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

Verse ConceptsIntimidationShutting DoorsMeeting PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleRebuilding The Temple

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Verse ConceptsGatesHeatWatchfulness, Of BelieversThe Act Of OpeningOpening The TempleHot Weather

And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsScribesWeepingDo Not MournHoly Times

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBeing BlessedLeisure, And PastimesLove FeastPromised JoyEating Before GodSitting In DejectionDo Not MournGod Our StrengthAlcoholic BeveragesJoyStrength In Hard TimesHope And StrengthCelebrationHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifestrenghcelebratingfriendliness

And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah your God from eternity to eternity. And let men bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfPraiseGod, The EternalImmortality, In OtStandingGlory Of GodGod's Glory RevealedEternal PraiseProclaiming God’s NameBless The Lord!

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringdiscouragementGrace, In OtPrayer In DiscouragementUnderestimationMighty OneGod Is To Be FearedGod Keeps CovenantHardship

And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites, and priests seal it."

Verse ConceptsAgreementLiteracyWritingCovenant RelationshipsLater Covenants With God

We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingGone Away

Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.

Verse ConceptsMemoriesCommitment, to GodDivine RemembranceBlotted Out

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To God

And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

Verse ConceptsDisplayingFive Months And MoreSeeking HonourWealthy People

That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In Womenroyalty

If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawDeposing

And let the king's decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it [is] vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small."

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be HonouredWives

So he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, saying that every man should be the master and rule in his own home and that he should speak [in the household] in the language of his own people.

Verse ConceptsLanguages ConfusedAuthority Of PeopleAlphabet

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

Verse ConceptsWeak Women

And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Verse ConceptsExchanging Of Leaders

And the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants - which feast was because of Esther - and let the lands be in quietness, and gave royal gifts.

Verse ConceptsWedding Feastsroyalty

Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Examples OfDifferent TeachingsBreaking Man's LawThe Law Given To Israel

If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

Verse ConceptsPlottingKilling Israelites

And the king said unto Haman, "Let the silver be given thee, and that people also, to do withal what pleaseth thee."

Verse ConceptsThe Will Of Men

And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.

Verse ConceptsCopies Of DocumentsPeople Showing MercyThe King's Orders

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Examples OfPray For UsFastingFasting And Prayer

And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, CharaceristicsMan's Action TomorrowFavor

Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

Verse ConceptsOnly One Person

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives

And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.

And Haman said unto the king, "Let the man unto whom the king would be glad to do worship, be brought hither,

Verse ConceptsPraising Specific People

Let the royal robes be brought which the king has worn, and the horse that the king rides upon, and the royal crown which is set upon his head:

Verse ConceptsClothing, Kinds OfRich ApparelDressCrowns On CreaturesDistinctive Clothing

And let the robes and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man with whom the king delights to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and let him ride through the public square of the city; and he proclaimed before him, "Thus, it is done to the man whom the king wishes to honor."

Verse ConceptsPromotionDistinctive Clothing

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeJews Under Threat

And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces:

Verse ConceptsKilling Israelites

Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleMan's Action TomorrowPeople Hung To Death

The king said, "Let this be done." So an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman's ten sons were hanged on poles.

Verse ConceptsHangingTen PeoplePeople Hung To Death

and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

and said, "Let the day perish, wherein I was born,

Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

Verse ConceptsAbortionConceptionRegretting BirthOther Times

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Verse ConceptsDark Days

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Verse ConceptsBlacknessBlackGod Is JustColors, BlackEclipse

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Verse Conceptsdarkness, naturalGod Is UnchangeableOther Times