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Ezra Chapter 1

Ezra
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Ezra

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Ezra returns to Jerusalem with the people and the priests after the Babylonian exile and they are told that they have been oppressed and that a law has been given. The king appoints Nehemiah to oversee the return and the law is given to the people. The chapter shows the people's desire for a law and the beginning of rebuilding the temple.

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(1) Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

II Chronicles 36:22II Chronicles 36:23Jeremiah 25:12Jeremiah 25:13Jeremiah 25:14Jeremiah 29:10Jeremiah 33:7Jeremiah 33:8Jeremiah 33:9Jeremiah 33:10Jeremiah 33:11Jeremiah 33:12

Related verses (shared words)

II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 4:5II Chronicles 36:23Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:8Ezra 3:7

(2) Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I Kings 8:27II Chronicles 2:12Isaiah 66:1Jeremiah 10:11Daniel 2:21Daniel 2:28Daniel 5:23Jeremiah 27:6Jeremiah 27:7Daniel 2:37Daniel 2:38Daniel 4:25

Related verses (shared words)

II Chronicles 36:23Ezra 4:3II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1Ezra 5:13Ezra 4:5

(3) 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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 1:9I Chronicles 28:20Matthew 28:20Deuteronomy 32:31Psalms 83:18Isaiah 45:5Jeremiah 10:10Daniel 2:47Daniel 6:26Acts 10:36

(4) And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 7:16Ezra 7:17Ezra 7:18Acts 24:17III John 1:6III John 1:7III John 1:8Ecclesiastes 4:9Ecclesiastes 4:10Galatians 6:2Ezra 2:68Ezra 2:69

Related verses (shared words)

Leviticus 23:38Ezra 1:6Matthew 5:22Ezekiel 32:13Exodus 38:17

(5) Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 1:1II Chronicles 36:22Nehemiah 2:12Proverbs 16:1II Corinthians 8:16Philippians 2:13James 1:16James 1:17III John 1:11

Related verses (shared words)

I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(6) And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 7:15Ezra 7:16Ezra 8:25Ezra 8:26Ezra 8:27Ezra 8:28Ezra 8:33Ezra 1:4Psalms 110:3II Corinthians 9:7

Related verses (shared words)

II Chronicles 24:14Revelation 18:12Ezra 1:4I Chronicles 29:9II Samuel 8:10II Kings 12:13

(7) Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 5:14Ezra 6:5II Kings 24:13II Kings 25:13II Kings 25:14II Kings 25:15II Kings 25:16II Chronicles 36:7II Chronicles 36:10II Chronicles 36:18Jeremiah 27:21Jeremiah 27:22

Related verses (shared words)

Judges 10:6Daniel 5:11II Samuel 8:10II Chronicles 24:14Ezra 5:14Isaiah 22:24

(8) Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 1:11Ezra 5:14Ezra 5:16Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:14Haggai 2:2Haggai 2:3Haggai 2:4Zechariah 4:6Zechariah 4:7Zechariah 4:8Zechariah 4:9

Related verses (shared words)

II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1Daniel 10:13Daniel 10:20Ezra 4:5

(9) And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:20Numbers 7:21Numbers 7:22Numbers 7:23Numbers 7:24Numbers 7:25Numbers 7:26Numbers 7:27Numbers 7:28Numbers 7:29

Related verses (shared words)

II Chronicles 2:10Numbers 7:84Exodus 38:24Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25

(10) Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
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Related verses (shared words)

II Kings 12:13Numbers 7:85II Chronicles 27:5Exodus 38:19Ezekiel 48:16II Samuel 8:10

(11) All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 9:23II Timothy 2:19II Timothy 2:20II Timothy 2:21Matthew 1:11Matthew 1:12

Related verses (shared words)

Ezekiel 48:16Ezra 5:14Exodus 38:19Numbers 7:85Leviticus 27:6Matthew 25:20

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