Ezra 7 - 10
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Now after this, v in the reign of v Artaxerxes king of Persia, w Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,
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son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,
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son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,
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son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,
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son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest -
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this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe x skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, y for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and z some of the priests and a Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple b servants.
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And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
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For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, c for the good hand of his God was on him.
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For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it d and to e teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
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This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:
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"Artaxerxes, f king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the g scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. h And now
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i I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
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For you are sent by the king j and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,
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and also to carry the silver and gold that the king j and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, k whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
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l with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and m with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem.
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With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and n you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.
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Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.
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The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
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And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.
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"And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,
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up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
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Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.
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We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose o tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
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"And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, p appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. q And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
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Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment."
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r Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, s who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,
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t and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8
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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 u Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, v Hattush.
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Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of w Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.
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x Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men.
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Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men.
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Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men.
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Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men.
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Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him 80 men.
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Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men.
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Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men.
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y Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him 28 men.
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Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.
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Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men.
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Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men.
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I gathered them to the river that runs to z Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there a none of the sons of Levi.
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Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and b Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,
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and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.
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And c by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of d Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;
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also e Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of f the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20;
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g besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all h mentioned by name.
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i Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river j Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, k to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
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For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, l "The hand of our God is for good on m all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him."
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So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
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Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: e Sherebiah, e Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.
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And I weighed out to them the n silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his o counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.
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p I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold,
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20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.
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And I said to them, q "You are holy to the Lord, and r the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
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Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, s within the chambers of the house of the Lord."
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So the priests and the Levites p took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.
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Then we departed from the river Ahava t on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. u The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
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v We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.
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On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were w weighed into the hands of x Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, y Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of z Binnui.
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The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.
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At that time a those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, b twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.
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c They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's d satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God.
Ezra 9
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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 e Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands f with their abominations, from the g Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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h For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the i holy race has j mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost."
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As soon as I heard this, I k tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and l sat appalled.
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Then all who m trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat n appalled until the evening sacrifice.
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And at the n evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment k and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees o and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
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saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities p have risen higher than our heads, and our q guilt has r mounted up to the heavens.
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s From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great q guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, t and to utter shame, as it is today.
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But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a u remnant and to give us a v secure hold within his holy place, that our God may w brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
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x For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, y but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
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"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
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which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with z their uncleanness.
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a Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land b and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.'
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And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for c our great guilt, seeing that you, our d God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a e remnant as this,
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shall we break your commandments again and f intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us g until you consumed us, so that there should be no e remnant, nor any to escape?
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O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a e remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our h guilt, i for none can stand before you because of this."
Ezra 10
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j While Ezra prayed and k made confession, weeping and l casting himself down m 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: n "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.
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Therefore o let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and p their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of q those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done r according to the Law.
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Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; s be strong and do it."
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Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel t take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.
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Then Ezra withdrew u from before the house of God and went to the v chamber of w Jehohanan the son of x Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither y eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
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And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,
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and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
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Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the z heavy rain.
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And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
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Now then a make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. b Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
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Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.
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But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
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Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come c at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, d until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and e Meshullam and f Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
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Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;
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and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
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Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of g Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.
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They h pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was i a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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j Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
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k Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
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Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
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Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
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Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
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And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.
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Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
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Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
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Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
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Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
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Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
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Of the l sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
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Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
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Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
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Of the sons of m Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
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Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
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Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
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Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu.
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Of the sons of Binnui: Shimei,
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Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
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Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
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Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
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Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
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Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.
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All these had married foreign women, and some of the women n had even borne children.
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Nehemiah 2:1
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
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Nehemiah 2:1
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
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Ezra 7:1 - 5
Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah.
1 Chronicles 6:4 - 14
Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua.
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Ezra 7:11 - 12
This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerx...
Ezra 7:21
And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to al...
Nehemiah 8:1 - 3
And all the people gathered as one man into the...
Nehemiah 8:13
On the second day the heads of fathers' houses ...
Nehemiah 12:26
These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Je...
Nehemiah 12:36
And his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, G...
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Ezra 7:9
For on the first day of the first month he bega...
Ezra 7:28
And who extended to me his steadfast love befor...
Ezra 8:18
And by the good hand of our God on us, they bro...
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of...
Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the tw...
Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's...
Nehemiah 2:18
And I told them of the hand of my God that had ...
Ezra 5:5
But the eye of their God was on the elders of t...
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Ezra 8:1 - 14
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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Ezra 8:15 - 19
I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
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Ezra 8:17
And sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.
Ezra 8:20
Besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.
Ezra 2:43
The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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Ezra 7:25
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
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2 Chronicles 17:7
In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Matthew 23:2 - 3
The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.
Nehemiah 8:1 - 8
And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.
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Ezekiel 26:7
For thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
Daniel 2:37
You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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Ezra 4:11
(This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) "To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now
Ezra 4:17
The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now
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Ezra 6:8
Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.
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Ezra 7:15
And also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:28
And who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8:25
And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.
Esther 1:14
The men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom):
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Ezra 7:14
For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
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2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.
Psalms 135:21
Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
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Ezra 8:25
And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.
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1 Chronicles 29:6
Then the leaders of fathers' houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king's work.
1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the Lord. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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Ezra 4:13
Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.
Ezra 4:20
And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.
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Exodus 18:21 - 22
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
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Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
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1 Chronicles 29:10
Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
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Ezra 6:22
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
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Ezra 9:9
For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
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1 Chronicles 24:3 - 4
With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.
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1 Chronicles 3:22
The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
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Ezra 8:3
Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.
Ezra 2:3 - 15
The sons of Parosh, 2,172.
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Ezra 10:30
Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
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Ezra 10:28
Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
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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 safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
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Ezra 7:7
And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
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Ezra 10:15
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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1 Chronicles 6:19
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.
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Nehemiah 12:24
And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.
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1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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Ezra 2:43
The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth.
Ezra 7:7
And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.
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Numbers 1:17
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named.
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2 Chronicles 20:3
Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
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Ezra 8:15
I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
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Psalms 5:8
Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
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Ezra 8:19
Also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20.
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Ezra 8:19
Also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20.
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Ezra 7:15 - 16
And also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 7:14
For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
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Ezra 1:9 - 11
And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers.
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Leviticus 21:6
They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord 's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
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Leviticus 22:2 - 3
Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the Lord.
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Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
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Ezra 8:26
I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold.
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Ezra 7:9
For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
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Nehemiah 2:11
So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days.
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Ezra 1:9 - 11
And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers.
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Nehemiah 3:4
And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.
Nehemiah 3:21
After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.
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Nehemiah 11:16
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God.
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Nehemiah 3:24
After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress
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Ezra 2:1
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.
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Ezra 6:17
They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
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Ezra 7:21
And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence.
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Esther 3:12
Then the king's scribes were summoned on the th...
Esther 8:9
The king's scribes were summoned at that time, ...
Esther 9:3
All the officials of the provinces and the satr...
Daniel 3:2 - 3
Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the sat...
Daniel 3:27
And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, a...
Daniel 6:2 - 3
And over them three presidents, of whom Daniel ...
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Ezra 6:21
It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.
Nehemiah 9:2
And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
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Deuteronomy 12:30 - 31
Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? - that I also may do the same.
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Exodus 13:5
And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
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Ezra 10:2
And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of...
Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also I saw the Jews who had marri...
Nehemiah 13:27
Shall we then listen to you and do all this gre...
Exodus 34:16
And you take of their daughters for your sons, ...
Deuteronomy 7:3
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your...
Nehemiah 10:30
We will not give our daughters to the peoples o...
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Psalms 106:35
But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.
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Nehemiah 1:4
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Ezra 10:3
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
Isaiah 66:2
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Isaiah 66:5
Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
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Exodus 29:39
One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.
Exodus 29:41
The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
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Ezra 9:4
Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
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Ezra 9:3
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
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1 Kings 8:22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
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Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers to this day we hav...
Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come upon us for our evi...
Ezra 9:15
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we...
Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, ...
Ezra 10:19
They pledged themselves to put away their wives...
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the G...
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2 Chronicles 28:9
But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, "Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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Psalms 106:6
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Daniel 9:5 - 6
We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
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Ezra 9:6
Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
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Daniel 9:7 - 8
To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.
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Ezra 9:13 - 14
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this.
Ezra 9:15
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.
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Isaiah 22:23
And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.
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Psalms 13:3
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.
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Nehemiah 9:36
Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.
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Ezra 7:28
And who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
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Ezra 6:21
It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Ezra 9:2
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.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
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Ezra 9:6 - 7
Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
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Job 11:6
And that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Psalms 103:10
He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
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Ezra 9:8
But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
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Ezra 9:2
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.
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Deuteronomy 9:8
Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
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Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this.
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Ezra 9:13
And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this.
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Nehemiah 9:33
Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.
Psalms 119:137
Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Daniel 9:14
Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
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Psalms 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
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Nehemiah 1:4 - 5
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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Nehemiah 1:6
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.
Daniel 9:20
While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God.
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Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.
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2 Chronicles 20:9
'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you - for your name is in this house - and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.'
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Ezra 9:2
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.
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2 Chronicles 34:31
And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
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Ezra 10:44
All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.
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Ezra 9:4
Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy 7:2 - 3
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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1 Chronicles 28:10
Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.
2 Chronicles 19:11
And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord ; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the upright!
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Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.
Nehemiah 13:25
And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
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Ezra 10:1
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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Ezra 8:29
Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the Lord.
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Nehemiah 12:22 - 23
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers' houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
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Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.
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Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.
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1 Samuel 12:18
So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
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Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.
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Ezra 10:3
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
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Nehemiah 13:31
And I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
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2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Numbers 25:4
And the Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.
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Ezra 8:16
Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight.
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Nehemiah 11:16
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God.
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Ezra 3:2
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.
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2 Kings 10:15
And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.
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Leviticus 6:6
And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering.
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Ezra 10:20 - 43
Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
Ezra 2:3 - 42
The sons of Parosh, 2,172.
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Ezra 10:31
Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon.
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Ezra 10:21
Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
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Ezra 10:29
Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
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Ezra 10:3
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
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