Berean Standard Bible
Ezra
10 chapters
Chapters
Ezra 1
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:
Ezra 2
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,
Ezra 3
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
Ezra 4
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
Ezra 5
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.
Ezra 6
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
Ezra 7
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra 8
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Ezra 9
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Ezra 10
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.