Ezra Chapter 6

• Ezra 6:1
  Ezra.
• Ezra 6:2
  Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
• Ezra 6:3
  A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
• Ezra 6:4
  In 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 o...
• Ezra 6:5
  with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
• Ezra 6:6
  Also 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 rest...
• Ezra 6:7
  Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far...
• Ezra 6:8
  Leave 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.
• Ezra 6:9
  Moreover 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, eve...
• Ezra 6:10
  That 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, accor...
• Ezra 6:11
  that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.
• Ezra 6:12
  I 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 ...
• Ezra 6:13
  May 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 ...
• Ezra 6:14
  Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sen...
• Ezra 6:15
  The 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, a...
• Ezra 6:16
  This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
• Ezra 6:17
  The 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.
• Ezra 6:18
  They 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, tw...
• Ezra 6:19
  They 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 o...
• Ezra 6:20
  The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
• Ezra 6:21
  Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the capt...
• Ezra 6:22
  The 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 l...
• Ezra 6:23
  and 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 ...