The Best Bible Verses in Ezra (ESV)
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Ezra
• Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD…might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
• Ezra 1:1–3 Cyrus king of Persia…made a proclamation…The LORD…has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem
• Ezra 2:68–69 when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings…According to their ability they gave
• Ezra 3:11 they sang responsively, praising &giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever…”
“…And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.”
• Ezra 4:4–6 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build…and bribed…to frustrate their purpose
• Ezra 5:2 Then Zerubbabel…and Jeshua…arose and began to rebuild the house of God …& the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.
• Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews
• Ezra 5:11 “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago”
• Ezra 6:14 “And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo.”
• Ezra 6:16 the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
• Ezra 7:6 Ezra…was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses…the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him
• Ezra 7:10 Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
• Ezra 7:25 “And those who do not know them [the laws of your God], you shall teach.”
• Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king
• Ezra 7:28 I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
• Ezra 8:16–18 Then I sent for…leading men…men of insight…temple servants…ministers for the house of our God…a man of discretion
• Ezra 8:21 I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey
• Ezra 8:22 The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.
• Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
• Ezra 8:31 The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
• Ezra 9:4 Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me
• Ezra 9:6 O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads
• Ezra 9:13 you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved
• Ezra 10:1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God…the people wept bitterly.
• Ezra 10:9 all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.