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Ezra Chapter 7

Ezra
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Ezra

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Ezra, the priest, writes to the people of Israel to remind them of their covenant with God and to expose their recent sins, especially their worship of idols and breaking of the law. He lists the various ways they have turned away from God, such as building altars, making idols, and worshipping foreign gods. The chapter ends with a call to repentance and restoration of the covenant.

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(1) Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
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Ezra 7:12Ezra 7:21Ezra 6:14Nehemiah 2:1Ezra 7:10Ezra 8:1Ezra 8:2Ezra 8:3Ezra 8:4Ezra 8:5Ezra 8:6Ezra 8:7

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Ezra 4:5Jeremiah 51:59I Chronicles 6:14I Chronicles 6:13Ezra 4:7

(2) The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
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II Samuel 8:17I Kings 2:35

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I Chronicles 6:12I Chronicles 6:8

(3) The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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I Chronicles 6:11I Chronicles 6:7

(4) The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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I Chronicles 6:5I Chronicles 6:51I Chronicles 6:6

(5) The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
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Exodus 6:25Numbers 25:7Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:9Numbers 25:10Numbers 25:11Numbers 25:12Numbers 25:13Numbers 31:6Joshua 22:13Joshua 22:31Judges 20:28

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I Chronicles 6:4I Chronicles 6:50

(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 his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
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Ezra 7:11Ezra 7:12Ezra 7:21Psalms 45:1Matthew 13:52Nehemiah 8:4Nehemiah 8:9Nehemiah 8:13Nehemiah 12:26Nehemiah 12:36Jeremiah 8:8I Corinthians 1:20

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Ezra 7:11

(7) And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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Ezra 8:1Ezra 8:2Ezra 8:3Ezra 8:4Ezra 8:5Ezra 8:6Ezra 8:7Ezra 8:8Ezra 8:9Ezra 8:10Ezra 8:11Ezra 8:12

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Nehemiah 7:73Ezra 2:70Ephesians 4:11Ezra 7:24Nehemiah 10:28Nehemiah 12:47

(8) And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
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Esther 3:7II Kings 25:8Ezekiel 20:1I Chronicles 27:8Ezra 7:9Jeremiah 52:12

(9) For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
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Ezra 7:6Nehemiah 2:8Nehemiah 2:18

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Esther 3:7II Kings 25:8Jeremiah 52:12II Chronicles 29:17II Kings 25:27Genesis 8:5

(10) For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
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I Samuel 7:3I Chronicles 29:18II Chronicles 12:14II Chronicles 19:3Job 11:13Psalms 10:17Psalms 57:7Ezra 7:6Psalms 1:2Psalms 19:7Psalms 119:45Psalms 119:96

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Ezekiel 5:6Deuteronomy 4:1Deuteronomy 4:14Deuteronomy 5:31Deuteronomy 6:1Ezekiel 5:7

(11) Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
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Ezra 4:11Ezra 5:6Ezra 7:6Matthew 23:2Matthew 23:13Mark 7:1Mark 7:2Mark 7:3Mark 7:4Mark 7:5Mark 7:6Mark 7:7

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Ezra 4:23Ezra 4:8Ezra 7:12Ezra 7:21Ezra 4:11Ezra 7:6

(12) Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
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I Kings 4:24I Kings 20:1Isaiah 10:8Ezekiel 26:7Daniel 2:37Daniel 2:47I Timothy 6:15Revelation 17:14Revelation 19:16Ezra 4:10Ezra 4:11Ezra 4:17

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Ezra 7:11Ezra 7:21

(13) I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
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Ezra 5:13Ezra 6:1II Chronicles 30:5Esther 3:15Esther 9:14Psalms 148:6Ezra 1:3Psalms 110:3Philippians 2:13Revelation 22:17

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Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(14) Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
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Esther 1:14Ezra 7:25Ezra 7:26Deuteronomy 17:18Deuteronomy 17:19Isaiah 8:20Ezra 1:3Ezra 5:8Ezra 6:12Daniel 2:47Daniel 6:20Daniel 6:26

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19II Kings 22:13II Kings 1:16

(15) And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
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Ezra 6:4Ezra 6:8Ezra 6:9Ezra 6:10Psalms 68:29Psalms 68:30Psalms 72:10Psalms 76:11Isaiah 60:6Isaiah 60:7Isaiah 60:8Isaiah 60:9

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I Samuel 12:3Daniel 4:21Daniel 5:23Philippians 3:19Numbers 7:19Ezra 8:25

(16) And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
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Ezra 8:25Ezra 8:26Ezra 8:27Ezra 8:28Ezra 1:4Ezra 1:6I Chronicles 29:6I Chronicles 29:9I Chronicles 29:17II Corinthians 8:12II Corinthians 9:7

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Job 11:7Exodus 38:17Ezra 5:14Ecclesiastes 8:17Ezra 2:1Daniel 2:48

(17) That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 6:9Ezra 6:10Deuteronomy 14:24Deuteronomy 14:25Deuteronomy 14:26Matthew 21:12Matthew 21:13John 2:14Numbers 15:4Numbers 15:5Numbers 15:6Numbers 15:7

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Ezekiel 45:17II Chronicles 7:7Amos 5:22I Chronicles 29:21

(18) And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.
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II Kings 12:15II Kings 22:7Ezra 7:26Ephesians 5:17

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Philippians 4:8Leviticus 11:42Exodus 38:17

(19) The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.
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Ezra 8:27Ezra 8:28Ezra 8:29Ezra 8:30Ezra 8:33Ezra 8:34II Chronicles 32:19Jeremiah 3:17

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I Chronicles 28:13II Samuel 8:10II Chronicles 24:14Isaiah 22:24

(20) And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.
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Ezra 6:4Ezra 6:8Ezra 6:9Ezra 6:10Ezra 6:11Ezra 6:12Ezra 6:13Ezra 6:14Ezra 6:15Ezra 6:16Ezra 6:17Ezra 6:18

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Philippians 4:8Deuteronomy 14:26Esther 8:8Leviticus 11:42Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(21) And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
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Ezra 7:12Ezra 7:13Ezra 4:16Ezra 4:20Ezra 6:6Ezra 7:6Ezra 7:10Ezra 7:11

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Philippians 4:8Ezra 6:6Ezra 7:11Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21

(22) Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
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Luke 16:7Ezekiel 45:14Luke 16:6Leviticus 2:13

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II Chronicles 2:10Ezekiel 45:14I Chronicles 29:7Ezra 8:26Ezra 6:9Mark 2:22

(23) Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
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Ezra 7:13Ezra 7:18Psalms 119:4Ezra 6:10Ezra 6:11Ezra 6:12Zechariah 12:3

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Philippians 4:8Leviticus 11:42I Samuel 1:8

(24) Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
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Ezra 7:7Ezra 2:36Ezra 2:37Ezra 2:38Ezra 2:39Ezra 2:40Ezra 2:41Ezra 2:42Ezra 2:43Ezra 2:44Ezra 2:45Ezra 2:46

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Romans 13:7Ezra 2:70Ezra 7:7Nehemiah 7:73Nehemiah 10:28Nehemiah 12:47

(25) And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
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Ezra 7:14I Kings 3:28I Chronicles 22:12Psalms 19:7Psalms 119:98Psalms 119:99Psalms 119:100Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 6:23James 1:5James 3:17James 3:18

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Ezra 6:6Genesis 15:18Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:21Joshua 12:2Joshua 17:9

(26) And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
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Ezra 6:11Daniel 3:28Daniel 3:29Daniel 6:26II Chronicles 30:12Exodus 21:1Exodus 21:2Exodus 21:3Exodus 21:4Exodus 21:5Exodus 21:6Exodus 21:7

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Matthew 5:22II Chronicles 15:13Ecclesiastes 12:14Romans 14:8I Corinthians 13:8

(27) Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
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Ezra 6:22I Chronicles 29:10I Chronicles 29:11I Chronicles 29:12I Chronicles 29:13I Chronicles 29:14I Chronicles 29:15I Chronicles 29:16I Chronicles 29:17I Chronicles 29:18I Chronicles 29:19I Chronicles 29:20

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Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(28) And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
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Ezra 9:9Genesis 32:28Genesis 43:14Nehemiah 1:11Ezra 7:14Jonah 3:7Ezra 7:6Ezra 7:9Ezra 5:5Ezra 8:18Nehemiah 2:8II Timothy 4:17

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Daniel 3:27Esther 8:8Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32II Chronicles 24:11Esther 2:8

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