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And when he got back to Jerusalem, Ezra would find out to his great sorrow, as chapters 9 and 10 of Ezra say, that the people had been living for some time in the gross sin of mixed marriages, of giving their sons and daughters to the heathen for wives and husbands, and of taking from the heath
Ezra 3, verse 7, they gave money also unto the masons and to the carpenters. and meat and drink and oil unto them of Zidon and to them of Tyre to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the Sea of Joppa according to the grant that they had of Cyrus, king of Persia. Now in the second year of their coming
The scripture reading for this morning is Ezra chapter 7. Ezra 7, this is the seventh sermon in this series on Ezra and Lord willing we will have two more on Ezra 8 and then Ezra 9 and 10. Now Ezra 7 begins a new section in this history of Ezra. Ezra 1-6 is all about the first return under the
Ezra 9:1-2 records for us the sin of the people of God who had returned from the captivity and had married the sons and daughters of the people of the land. It is said of them that they had “not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations.
November 15 Read Ezra 1:1-6 For seventy long years Israel had endured captivity in Babylon. The very young were returning as very old. The new generation did not know Canaan and Jerusalem. That they were returning to their homeland was all that they knew. They would learn about the blessedness of b
January 27 Read Ezra 7:1-10 Psalm 119:77-78 People of God, is the law your delight? Are we like Ezra who pondered the Word of God even in a foreign land. Are we like Ezra who loved that Word so well that he saw that the message for him was to return and help to build Jerusalem. Do we make time each
In contrast to the first six chapters of Ezra, which recount the first wave of exiles that returned to Jerusalem around 537 B.C., these last few chapters are a first-person memoir of events that happened in Ezra’s lifetime. They begin with his arrival in Jerusalem in 458 B.C. Ezra was a scribe that