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Ezra 5

Rule 01 extraction complete: 17 of 17 verses reviewed, 3 research candidates identified. Candidates are extraction records. Most have not yet been researched.

  1. 1Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
  2. 2Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
  3. 3At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, came to them, with Shetharbozenai and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this wall?”Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  4. 4They also asked for the names of the men who were making this building.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  5. 5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  6. 6The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  7. 7They sent a letter to him, in which was written: To Darius the king, all peace.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  8. 8Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  9. 9Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  10. 10We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  11. 11Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  12. 12But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried the people away into Babylon.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  13. 13But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  14. 14The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)Event: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  15. 15He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)Event: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  16. 16Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)Event: The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)Event: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
  17. 17Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)

Scripture quotations: World English Bible (public domain), eBible.org engwebp edition, unmodified.