Ezra:5-7

mkjv@Ezra:5:1 @ Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, [who was] over them.

mkjv@Ezra:5:2 @ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of God at Jerusalem. And with them [were] the prophets of God helping them.

mkjv@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time Tatnai, governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, came to them and said this to them Who has commanded you to build this house and to make this wall?

mkjv@Ezra:5:4 @ So then we said to them: What [are] the names of the men who are building this building?

mkjv@Ezra:5:5 @ But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they could not cause them to stop until the matter came to Darius, and answer by letter concerning this had been returned.

mkjv@Ezra:5:6 @ The copy of the letter which Tatnai, governor of [the province] Beyond the River, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions, the officials Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king:

mkjv@Ezra:5:7 @ They sent a letter to him, in which this was written, To Darius the king, all peace:

mkjv@Ezra:5:8 @ Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built [with] great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work goes on fast and is blessed in their hands.

mkjv@Ezra:5:9 @ Then we asked those elders [and] said this to them, Who commanded you to build this house and to make these walls?

mkjv@Ezra:5:10 @ We also asked their names in order to notify you so that we might write the names of the men who are the chief of them.

mkjv@Ezra:5:11 @ and they returned this answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of Heaven and earth. And we build the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.

mkjv@Ezra:5:12 @ But after our fathers had provoked the God of Heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried the people away to Babylon.

mkjv@Ezra:5:13 @ But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, King Cyrus gave an order to build this house of God.

mkjv@Ezra:5:14 @ And also the vessels of gold and silver from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they [were delivered to one whose name [was] Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.

mkjv@Ezra:5:15 @ And he said to him, Take these vessels and go. Carry them into the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in His place.

mkjv@Ezra:5:16 @ Then the same Sheshbazzar came [and] laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem. And since that time even until now it has been building, but is not finished.

mkjv@Ezra:5:17 @ And therefore, if [it seems] good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house there at Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was given from Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem. And let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

mkjv@Ezra:6:1 @ Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the scrolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

mkjv@Ezra:6:2 @ And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that [was] in the province of the Medes, a scroll. And in it [was] a record written thus:

mkjv@Ezra:6:3 @ In the first year of Cyrus the king, 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 the foundations of it be strongly laid. The height of it shall be] sixty cubits, and the breadth of it shall be sixty cubits,

mkjv@Ezra:6:4 @ [with] three rows of great stones and a row of new timber. And let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

mkjv@Ezra:6:5 @ And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be given back and brought again to the temple which [ is] at Jerusalem, to their place, and place them in the house of God.

mkjv@Ezra:6:6 @ And Tatnai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-boznai, and your companions, the officials Beyond the River, keep away from there.

mkjv@Ezra:6:7 @ 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.

mkjv@Ezra:6:8 @ Also I make a decree as to what you shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God, that at once expense be given to these men from the king's goods, from the tax Beyond the River, so that they may not have to stop.

mkjv@Ezra:6:9 @ And that which they have need of, both young bulls and rams and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of Heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the choice of the priests at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail,

mkjv@Ezra:6:10 @ so that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savors to the God of Heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.

mkjv@Ezra:6:11 @ Also I have made a decree that whoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house and be set up, and let him be hanged on it. And let his house be made a dunghill for this.

mkjv@Ezra:6:12 @ And may the God who has caused His name to dwell there destroy all kings and people who shall put their hand to alter [or] to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have made a decree. Let it be done with speed.

mkjv@Ezra:6:13 @ Then Tatnai, governor of [the province] Beyond the River, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.

mkjv@Ezra:6:14 @ And the elders of the Jews built, and they were blessed through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished [it] according to the command of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

mkjv@Ezra:6:15 @ And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

mkjv@Ezra:6:16 @ And the sons of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the sons of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

mkjv@Ezra:6:17 @ And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs. And for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

mkjv@Ezra:6:18 @ And they set the priests in their sections, and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God which [is] at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

mkjv@Ezra:6:19 @ And the sons of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

mkjv@Ezra:6:20 @ For the priests and the Levites [were] purified together, all of them pure. And they slaughtered the passover [lamb] for all the sons of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

mkjv@Ezra:6:21 @ And the sons of Israel ate, all who had come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the uncleanness of the nations of the land, in order to seek the LORD God of Israel.

mkjv@Ezra:6:22 @ And [they] kept the Feast of Unleavened [Bread] seven days with joy. For the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to make their hands strong in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

mkjv@Ezra:7:1 @ And after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

mkjv@Ezra:7:2 @ the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

mkjv@Ezra:7:3 @ the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

mkjv@Ezra:7:4 @ the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

mkjv@Ezra:7:5 @ the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest,

mkjv@Ezra:7:6 @ 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 he asked, according to the hand of the LORD his God on him.

mkjv@Ezra:7:7 @ And there went up [some] of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the temple slaves, to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

mkjv@Ezra:7:8 @ And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king.

mkjv@Ezra:7:9 @ For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

mkjv@Ezra:7:10 @ For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach statutes and judgments in Israel.

mkjv@Ezra:7:11 @ And this [is] the copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of His statutes to Israel.

mkjv@Ezra:7:12 @ Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of Heaven, perfect [peace], and now:

mkjv@Ezra:7:13 @ From me was made a decree that everyone of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who desire of their own free will to go up to Jerusalem, go with you;

mkjv@Ezra:7:14 @ since you have been sent by the king, and by his seven counselors to ask about Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God in your hand;

mkjv@Ezra:7:15 @ and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose house [is] in Jerusalem,

mkjv@Ezra:7:16 @ and all the silver and gold which you can find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem.

mkjv@Ezra:7:17 @ Before all of this, you shall diligently buy with this money, bulls, rams, lambs, with their food offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.

mkjv@Ezra:7:18 @ And whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that after the will of your God.

mkjv@Ezra:7:19 @ Also the vessels which are given you for the service of the house of your God, deliver them before the God of Jerusalem.

mkjv@Ezra:7:20 @ And whatever more shall be needful for the house of God, which you shall have need to give, give [it] out of the king's treasure house.

mkjv@Ezra:7:21 @ And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who [are] Beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of Heaven, shall ask of you, it shall be done exactly,

mkjv@Ezra:7:22 @ to a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without saying.

mkjv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever is commanded by the God of Heaven, let it be carefully done for the house of the God of Heaven for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

mkjv@Ezra:7:24 @ Also, we notify you, that in regard to any of the priests and the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple slaves, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, taxes, or custom on them.

mkjv@Ezra:7:25 @ And now, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God that [is] in your hand, set officers and judges who may judge all the people who [are] Beyond the River, all who know the laws of your God; and teach them who do not know.

mkjv@Ezra:7:26 @ And whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether [it is] to death, or to exile, or to confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

mkjv@Ezra:7:27 @ Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, who has put this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,

mkjv@Ezra:7:28 @ and has extended mercy before the king and his counselors and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was made strong as the hand of the LORD my God [was] on me, and I gathered out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

mkjv@Ezra:8:1 @ These [are] now the chief of their fathers, and the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

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