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Ezra Chapter 5

Ezra
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Ezra

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Ezra leads the exiles to Jerusalem where they are welcomed and the priests and Levites are assigned to the temple service. The people are instructed to follow the law and keep the covenant. The chapter ends with the priests and Levites being set apart for their duties.

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(1) 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.
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Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:2Haggai 1:3Haggai 1:4Haggai 1:5Haggai 1:6Haggai 1:7Haggai 1:8Haggai 1:9Haggai 1:10Haggai 1:11Haggai 1:12

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Ezra 6:14Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Zechariah 1:1Zechariah 1:7I Samuel 10:11

(2) Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
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Ezra 3:2Haggai 1:12Haggai 1:13Haggai 1:14Haggai 1:15Zechariah 6:11Ezra 6:14Haggai 2:4Haggai 2:5Haggai 2:6Haggai 2:7Haggai 2:8

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Ezra 3:8Ezra 4:3Ezra 3:2Nehemiah 12:1

(3) At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
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Ezra 5:6Ezra 6:6Ezra 6:13Ezra 7:21Nehemiah 2:7Nehemiah 2:8Nehemiah 2:9Ezra 5:9Ezra 1:3Matthew 21:23Acts 4:7

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Ezra 5:6Ezra 6:6Ezra 6:13Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21

(4) Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
(5) But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
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Ezra 7:6Ezra 7:28Ezra 8:22II Chronicles 16:9Psalms 32:8Psalms 33:18Psalms 34:15Psalms 76:10Philippians 1:28I Peter 3:12Psalms 129:2Psalms 129:3

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II Chronicles 8:15Esther 9:26Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Exodus 18:22Numbers 25:18

(6) The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
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Ezra 4:11Ezra 4:23Ezra 4:9Ezra 6:6

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Ezra 6:6Ezra 6:13Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2

(7) They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
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Ezra 4:17Daniel 3:9Daniel 4:1Daniel 6:21John 14:27II Thessalonians 3:16

(8) Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
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Ezra 2:1Nehemiah 7:6Nehemiah 11:3Esther 1:1Esther 1:22Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:3Ezra 6:10Ezra 7:23Deuteronomy 10:17Deuteronomy 32:31Psalms 145:3

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I Chronicles 29:2Zechariah 8:19I Kings 7:10I Kings 15:22Mark 2:18I Kings 5:17

(9) Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
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Ezra 5:3Ezra 5:4

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11

(10) We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
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I Kings 3:11Genesis 25:13Genesis 26:18Genesis 36:40Exodus 28:10Exodus 28:21

(11) And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
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Joshua 24:15Psalms 119:46Daniel 3:26Jonah 1:9Matthew 10:32Luke 12:8Acts 27:23Romans 1:16Romans 6:16Galatians 6:14I Kings 6:1I Kings 6:2

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Ezra 6:14Nehemiah 3:2

(12) But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
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II Kings 21:12II Kings 21:13II Kings 21:14II Kings 21:15II Chronicles 34:24II Chronicles 34:25II Chronicles 36:16II Chronicles 36:17Nehemiah 9:26Nehemiah 9:27Isaiah 59:1Isaiah 59:2

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Ezra 2:1II Kings 24:15II Chronicles 36:7Esther 2:6Jeremiah 27:20Jeremiah 28:3

(13) But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
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Ezra 1:1Ezra 1:2Ezra 1:3Ezra 1:4Ezra 1:5Ezra 1:6Ezra 1:7Ezra 1:8Ezra 6:3Ezra 6:4Ezra 6:5Isaiah 44:28

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Ezra 5:17Ezra 6:3Ezra 4:3Ezra 5:14II Chronicles 36:22Ezra 1:1

(14) And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
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Ezra 1:7Ezra 1:8Ezra 1:9Ezra 1:10Ezra 6:5II Chronicles 36:7II Chronicles 36:18Jeremiah 52:19Daniel 5:2Daniel 5:3Ezra 7:27Proverbs 21:1

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Ezra 6:5II Chronicles 36:7II Kings 11:11II Chronicles 23:10Jeremiah 7:4I Corinthians 3:17

(15) And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
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Ezra 1:2Ezra 3:3Ezra 6:3

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

(16) Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
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Ezra 5:2Ezra 3:8Ezra 3:10Haggai 1:12Haggai 1:13Haggai 1:14Haggai 2:18Zechariah 4:10Ezra 6:15

(17) Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
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Ezra 4:15Ezra 4:19Ezra 6:1Ezra 6:2Proverbs 25:2Ezra 6:3Ezra 6:4Ezra 6:5

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Ezra 5:13Ezra 6:3Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Daniel 6:12II Kings 24:15

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