Summary of the Book of Ezra Ezra is a book of Narrative History and Genealogies. Key personalities include Cyrus, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Darius I, Artaxerxes I, and Zerubbabel. Ezra’s purpose was to accurately record the events of the return from the Babylonian exile, after a seventy-year period and the events that surround the rebuilding of […]
It appears that Ezra got things put in order, is it going to stay that way? “Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of
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Now that Your new house and temple are built, what’s going to happen? The genealogy of Ezra lists ancestors back to Aaron (Ezra 7:1-5). “This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request,
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What are You going to do now that the building of Your house is being sabotaged? “Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them. Then rose up Zerubbabel the son
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Is this house going to take seven years to build like it did with Solomon? “Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel; Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us
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