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Ezra · read by John Meekin
32 verses, in order. Only the verses John read aloud are shown.
Ezra 1
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In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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"This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.'"Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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30 gold bowls, 410 matching silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
Ezra 2
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Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
Ezra 3
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By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
Ezra 4
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Thus the construction of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
Ezra 5
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Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
Ezra 6
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So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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And this temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)
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For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.Read from KJV · Ezra chapters 1-6 (part 1)