Ezra
How each chapter begins
- Ezra 1
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred…
- Ezra 2
Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by…
- Ezra 3
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 4
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
- Ezra 5
Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the…
- Ezra 6
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
- Ezra 7
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of…
- Ezra 8
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King…
- Ezra 9
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the…
- Ezra 10
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly…