Let Us Rise and Build
By: Good News Centre
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 1
Ezra 1:1 - 11
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In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
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"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 2
Ezra 2:1 - 70
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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.
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They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 3
Ezra 3:1 - 13
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When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
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Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 4
Ezra 4:1 - 24
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Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,
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they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here." ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 5
Ezra 5:1 - 17
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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.
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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them. ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 6
Ezra 6:1 - 22
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Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.
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And in Ecbatana, the capital that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record. ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 7
Ezra 7:1 - 28
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Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,
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son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 8
Ezra 8:1 - 36
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These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
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Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 9
Ezra 9:1 - 15
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After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost." ...
Good News Centre - Fasting & Prayer 2014 Day 10
Ezra 10:1 - 44
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While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
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And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. ...
