Old Testament · 10 chapters

Ezra

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Session 1 · Ezra 1–5

In his first year Cyrus proclaims that the Lord has charged him to build the house in Jerusalem, and he returns the vessels to Sheshbazzar.
The families who return with Zerubbabel and Jeshua are listed, and those who cannot prove their descent are noted beside the freewill gifts.
They build the altar before the temple, keep the Feast of Booths, and in the second year lay the foundation with tears and shouting mixed.
Adversaries offer to help, are refused, and then frighten the builders, while later royal letters halt work in the city.
Haggai and Zechariah prophesy, Zerubbabel and Jeshua resume, and Tattenai writes to Darius asking for the decree of Cyrus to be found.

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Session 2 · Ezra 6–10

Darius finds Cyrus's memorandum at Ecbatana, orders the temple finished from the royal treasury, and the house is dedicated in his sixth year with a Passover.
Ezra, a priest and scribe, sets his heart to study the law, to do it, and to teach it, and Artaxerxes sends him with silver, authority, and a letter.
At the river Ahava Ezra proclaims a fast instead of asking for soldiers, because he has already told the king that God's hand rests on those who seek Him.
When he arrives he is told that priests and people have married into the abominations of the lands, and he prays a confession that owns the guilt.
The assembly meets in heavy rain, and the people pledge to separate from those marriages as the law's demand in that fragile return.

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