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Ezra 7

Rule 01 extraction complete: 28 of 28 verses reviewed, 4 research candidates identified. Candidates are extraction records. Most have not yet been researched.

  1. 1Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  2. 2the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  3. 3the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  4. 4the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  5. 5the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  6. 6this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the LORD his God’s hand on him.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  7. 7Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
  8. 8He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
  9. 9For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
  10. 10For Ezra had set his heart to seek the LORD’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
  11. 11Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the LORD’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  12. 12Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. NowReviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  13. 13I make a decree that all those of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  14. 14Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  15. 15and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  16. 16and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  17. 17Therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  18. 18Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  19. 19The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  20. 20Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  21. 21I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  22. 22up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  23. 23Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  24. 24Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  25. 25You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  26. 26Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  27. 27Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem;Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
  28. 28and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the LORD my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.Reviewed — research candidateEvent: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)

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