Old Testament
Ezra
Ezra tells how Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem, rebuilt the temple and restored public worship. The work faced delay, opposition and disappointment. Ezra arrives later to teach Scripture and help the community live by it. The book joins practical rebuilding with the harder work of rebuilding a faithful people.
Ezra 3
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- Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
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Ezra 9
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- Ezra 9:1-2
Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
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