Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+005   CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 1 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+004   CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, 2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+003   CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+002   CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 2 They came with Zerubbabel, […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+001   EZRA In the fifth century BC, many Judeans were returning from exile to the southern part of the land of Israel. They faced great difficulties: their capital city and temple had been destroyed, foreigners had moved in, and they were no longer ruled by their own king. But the […]