Ezra 4:3

Zerubbabel and the leaders refused the offer, insisting they alone would build as Cyrus commanded. They guarded the purity of worship and their God-given commission.

Cross-references · 10

• Neh 2:20Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
• Acts 8:21You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
• Matt 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
• Isa 44:28Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”
• Isa 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
• John 4:22–23You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
• Ezra 6:3–5In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;
• 2 Chr 36:22Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
• Rom 9:4–5who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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