The Histories · Old Testament
Ezra
Ezra is book 15 of 66 and belongs to the Histories in the Old Testament. It has 10 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 326 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Ezra 1: Ezra 1: Cyrus's proclamation and the return of the temple vessels
The narrator opens in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia and says the Lord stirs up the king's spirit so that the word spoken by Jeremiah might… - Ezra 2: Ezra 2: the register of those who returned with Zerubbabel
The chapter is a register of the children of the province who went up out of the captivity that Nebuchadnezzar had carried to Babylon, each returning… - Ezra 3: Ezra 3: the altar rebuilt and the temple foundation laid
In the seventh month, with the people settled in their cities, they gather as one man to Jerusalem. Jeshua the son of Jozadak with his brother… - Ezra 4: Ezra 4: adversaries stop the work at Jerusalem
When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin hear that the children of the captivity are building the temple, they come to Zerubbabel and the chief of… - Ezra 5: Ezra 5: Haggai and Zechariah stir the builders and Tatnai writes to Darius
Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo prophesy to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel. Zerubbabel the son of… - Ezra 6: Ezra 6: Darius confirms the decree and the house is finished and dedicated
Darius orders a search in the house of the rolls at Babylon, and a roll is found at Achmetha in the province of the Medes. It records Cyrus's decree… - Ezra 7: Ezra 7: Ezra the scribe goes up with Artaxerxes's letter
In the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia the narrator introduces Ezra with a genealogy running from his father Seraiah back through Zadok and… - Ezra 8: Ezra 8: the company at Ahava, the fast, and the treasure weighed at Jerusalem
Ezra lists the chief of the fathers who went up with him from Babylon in the reign of Artaxerxes, by family with the number of males in each… - Ezra 9: Ezra 9: the report of mixed marriages and Ezra's prayer of confession
When these things are done, the princes come to Ezra and report that the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves… - Ezra 10: Ezra 10: the covenant to put away foreign wives and the list of those who had taken them
While Ezra prays and weeps, a very great congregation of men, women and children gathers and weeps. Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of…
