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Ezra 6

Rule 01 extraction complete: 22 of 22 verses reviewed, 5 research candidates identified. Candidates are extraction records. Most have not yet been researched.

  1. 1Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  2. 2A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  3. 3In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid, with its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits;Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Event: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  4. 4with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Event: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  5. 5Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Event: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  6. 6Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  7. 7Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  8. 8Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  9. 9That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  10. 10that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  11. 11I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  12. 12May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
  13. 13Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  14. 14The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  15. 15This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  16. 16The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  17. 17They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  18. 18They set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
  19. 19The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)
  20. 20Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)
  21. 21The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, ate,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)
  22. 22and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)

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