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Ezra Chapter 3

Ezra
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Ezra

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Ezra gathers the people of Israel and the exiles in Babylon to renew their covenant with God and to celebrate a festival that honors Him and the people. The chapter records the preparation of the festival, the gathering, and the dedication of the temple, emphasizing unity, worship, and faithfulness.

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(1) And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
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Exodus 23:14Exodus 23:15Exodus 23:16Exodus 23:17Leviticus 16:29Leviticus 23:24Leviticus 23:27Leviticus 23:28Leviticus 23:29Leviticus 23:30Leviticus 23:31Leviticus 23:32

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Esther 3:7Exodus 16:18Leviticus 23:39Numbers 11:32Ezra 10:9Genesis 8:4

(2) Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
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Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:12Haggai 1:14Haggai 2:2Haggai 2:3Haggai 2:4Zechariah 3:1Zechariah 3:8Zechariah 6:11Ezra 2:2I Chronicles 3:17I Chronicles 3:19

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Joshua 22:23Joshua 8:31II Chronicles 7:7II Chronicles 31:3

(3) And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
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II Chronicles 4:1Ezra 4:11Ezra 4:12Ezra 4:13Ezra 4:14Ezra 4:15Ezra 4:16Ezra 8:21Ezra 8:22Psalms 27:1Psalms 27:2Psalms 56:2

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7II Chronicles 31:3Ezekiel 45:17Joshua 8:31

(4) They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
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Exodus 23:16Leviticus 23:34Leviticus 23:35Leviticus 23:36Nehemiah 8:14Nehemiah 8:15Nehemiah 8:16Nehemiah 8:17Zechariah 14:16Zechariah 14:17Zechariah 14:18Zechariah 14:19

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I Kings 8:64I Kings 3:15II Chronicles 7:7Numbers 29:39Joshua 8:31II Chronicles 31:3

(5) And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
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Exodus 29:38Exodus 29:39Exodus 29:40Exodus 29:41Exodus 29:42Numbers 28:3Numbers 28:4Numbers 28:5Numbers 28:6Numbers 28:7Numbers 28:8Numbers 28:9

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I Chronicles 29:9Exodus 35:22Numbers 7:10I Kings 3:15I Kings 8:63I Kings 12:33

(6) From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
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Esther 3:7I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 31:7Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:17Haggai 2:18

(7) They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
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II Kings 12:11II Kings 12:12II Kings 22:5II Kings 22:6II Chronicles 24:12II Chronicles 24:13I Kings 5:6I Kings 5:9I Kings 5:10I Kings 5:11II Chronicles 2:10II Chronicles 2:11

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II Chronicles 2:8II Samuel 5:11Numbers 28:12I Kings 9:11II Kings 19:23I Chronicles 22:4

(8) Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.
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Numbers 4:3I Chronicles 23:24I Chronicles 23:25I Chronicles 23:26I Chronicles 23:27I Chronicles 23:28I Chronicles 23:29I Chronicles 23:30I Chronicles 23:31I Chronicles 23:32

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II Chronicles 3:2Haggai 1:1Esther 3:7Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38Numbers 1:1

(9) Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
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Ezra 2:40Nehemiah 7:43

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Ezra 3:8Nehemiah 10:9Numbers 1:51Numbers 2:17II Chronicles 34:12Numbers 3:45

(10) And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
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Zechariah 4:10Exodus 28:40Exodus 28:41Exodus 28:42I Samuel 22:18I Chronicles 15:27Nehemiah 12:24Nehemiah 12:25Nehemiah 12:26Numbers 10:1Numbers 10:2Numbers 10:3

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Psalms 150:5II Chronicles 5:12Ezra 3:6Ezra 3:12Psalms 79:1Isaiah 44:28

(11) And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
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Exodus 15:21Nehemiah 12:24Nehemiah 12:40Psalms 24:7Psalms 24:8Psalms 24:9Psalms 24:10Isaiah 6:3I Chronicles 16:34I Chronicles 16:41II Chronicles 7:3Psalms 103:17

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4II Chronicles 5:13

(12) But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
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Haggai 2:3Job 8:7Isaiah 41:14Isaiah 60:22Daniel 2:34Daniel 2:35Zechariah 4:10Matthew 13:31Matthew 13:32Psalms 126:6Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 31:9

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Ezra 3:10Ezra 3:11Ezra 3:13Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38Isaiah 9:3

(13) So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
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Judges 2:5Nehemiah 12:43Psalms 5:11Jeremiah 33:11Zechariah 4:7Luke 19:37Luke 19:38Luke 19:39Luke 19:40Exodus 32:17Exodus 32:18I Samuel 4:5

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I Samuel 4:6Joshua 6:10II Kings 7:6Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 3:13Psalms 98:4

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