EZRA

Passages on this topic · 48

• 1 Chronicles 4:17

  The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

• Ezra 7:1

  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,

• Ezra 7:2

  the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

• Ezra 7:3

  the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

• Ezra 7:4

  the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

• Ezra 7:5

  the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest —

• Ezra 7:6

  this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

• Ezra 7:8

  He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

• Ezra 7:10

  For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

• Ezra 7:21

  I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

• Ezra 8:21

  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

• Ezra 8:29

  Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

• Ezra 10:1

  Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

• Ezra 10:2

  Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

• Ezra 10:3

  Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

• Ezra 10:4

  Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

• Ezra 10:5

  Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

• Ezra 10:6

  Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

• Ezra 10:7

  They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;

• Ezra 10:8

  and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

• Ezra 10:9

  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

• Ezra 10:10

  Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

• Ezra 10:11

  Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

• Ezra 10:12

  Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Ezra 10:14

  Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

• Ezra 10:16

  The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

• Ezra 10:17

  They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

• Nehemiah 10:2

  Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

• Nehemiah 12:1

  Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

• Nehemiah 12:27

  At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

• Nehemiah 12:28

  The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;

• Nehemiah 12:29

  also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 12:30

  The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

• Nehemiah 12:31

  Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

• Nehemiah 12:32

  and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,

• Nehemiah 12:33

  and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

• Nehemiah 12:34

  Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,

• Nehemiah 12:35

  and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

• Nehemiah 12:36

  and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

• Nehemiah 12:37

  By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,

• Nehemiah 12:39

  and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

• Nehemiah 12:40

  So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

• Nehemiah 12:41

  and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

• Nehemiah 12:42

  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

• Nehemiah 12:43

  They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.