Old Testament
Ezra
10 chapters · 280 verses · 280 verses reviewed for historical content
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Chapters
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Researched events in Ezra
- Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)
- The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
- Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
- Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
- Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)
- The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)
- The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)
- The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)
- Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
- Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
- Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)
- Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)
- The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)
- Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
- The mixed-marriages crisis: Ezra's confession, the assembly in the rain (20/IX) and the commission (Ezra 9–10)