Ezra
1:1-11
Now, IN The First Year OF
Cyrus, King OF Persia, That THE WORD OF THE LORD
(GOD Almighty), BY The Mouth OF Jeremiah, MIGHT BE FULFILLED, THE LORD
(GOD Almighty) STIRRED UP The Spirit OF Cyrus, King OF Persia, SO That He King
Cyrus) MADE A Proclamation, THROUGHOUT All His Kingdom, AND ALSO PUT
IT IN WRITING, SAYING, THUS SAYS Cyrus, King OF Persia: All The
Kingdoms OF The Earth, THE LORD GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven HAS GIVEN Me.
AND He (GOD Almighty) HAS
COMMANDED Me TO BUILD Him (GOD Almighty) A HOUSE AT Jerusalem, WHICH IS IN Judah. Who IS Among YOU OF ALL His
People? MAY His (King Cyrus) GOD (GOD
Almighty) BE WITH Him (King Cyrus), AND LET Him (King Cyrus) TO UP TO Jerusalem,
WHICH IS IN Judah, AND BUILD THE HOUSE
OF THE LORD GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Israel (HE IS GOD), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem.
AND WHOEVER IS LEFT, IN ANY
PLACE, WHERE He DWELLS, LET The Men OF His Place, HELP Him, WITH Silver AND Gold,
WITH Goods AND Livestock, BESIDES THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS, FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD
(GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem.
THEN, The Heads OF The Fathers’ HOUSES OF Judah AND Benjamin, AND
The Priests AND The Levites, WITH ALL, Whose Spirits GOD (GOD Almighty) HAD MOVED,
AROSE TO GO UP AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
(GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem. AND All Those Who WERE
AROUND
Them ENCOURAGED Them, WITH Articles OF Silver AND Gold, WITH Goods AND Livestock,
AND WITH Precious Things, BESIDES All That WAS WILLINGLY OFFERED.
King Cyrus ALSO BROUGHT OUT THE ARTICLES OF
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty), Which Nebuchadnezzar HAD
TAKEN FROM Jerusalem and put in the temple of his gods; AND Cyrus, King OF Persia
BROUGHT Them OUT, BY The Hand OF Mithredath, The Treasurer, AND COUNTED Them OUT
TO Sheshbazzar, The Prince OF Judah.
THIS IS The Number OF Them:
Thirty (30) Gold Platters, One Thousand (1,000) Silver Platters, Twenty-Nine
(29) Knives, Thirty (30) Gold Basins, Four Hundred AND
Ten (410) Silver Basins OF A Similar Kind,
AND One Thousand (1,000) Other Articles. All The Articles OF Gold AND Silver WERE Five Thousand Four
Hundred. ALL THESE
Sheshbazzar
TOOK WITH THE CAPTIVES, WHO WERE BROUGHT FROM Babylon TO Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:1, 64-65, 68-70
Now, THESE ARE The People
(The Children OF Israel) OF The Province (Babylon), Who CAME BACK FROM The Captivity,
OF Those Who HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, Whom Nebuchadnezzar, The King OF Babylon, HAD
CARRIED AWAY TO Babylon, AND Who RETURNED TO Jerusalem AND Judah, EVERYONE TO His Own City.
[See: Ezra 2:2-63, for details]
The Whole Assembly Together WAS Forty-Two Thousand Three
Hundred AND Sixty, BESIDES Their Male AND
Female Servants, OF Whom, THERE WERE Seven Thousand Three Hundred
AND Thirty-Seven; AND They HAD Two Hundred (200) Men AND Women Singers.
SOME OF The Heads OF The Fathers’ Houses, When They CAME TO THE HOUSE
OF THE LORD (GOD Almighty) WHICH IS IN Jerusalem, OFFERED FREELY,
FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), TO ERECT IT, IN ITS PLACE: According TO
Their Ability, They GAVE TO The Treasury FOR THE WORK, Sixty-One Thousand (61,000)
Gold Drachmas, Five Thousand (5,000) Minas of Silver, AND One Hundred (100) Priestly
Garments. SO, The Priests AND The
Levites, Some OF The People, The
Singers, The Gatekeepers, AND The Nethinim, DWELT IN Their Cities, AND All
Israel IN Their Cities.
Ezra
5:11-16
AND THUS They Returned Us
an Answer, SAYING: “We ARE The Servants OF THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven AND
Earth, AND We ARE REBUILDING THE TEMPLE, That WAS Built Many Years Ago, Which A
GREAT KING OF Israel BUILT AND COMPLETED.
BUT BECAUSE Our fathers
PROVOKED THE GOD (GOD Almighty) OF Heaven TO WRATH, He (GOD Almighty) GAVE Them
(Our fathers) INTO The Hand OF Nebuchadnezzar, King OF Babylon, The Chaldean, Who DESTROYED THIS TEMPLE AND CARRIED The
People (The Children of Israel) AWAY TO Babylon.
However, IN The First
Year OF Cyrus, King OF Babylon, King Cyrus ISSUED A DECREE TO BUILD THIS HOUSE OF
GOD (GOD Almighty). ALSO, The Gold AND Silver
ARTICLES OF THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), Which Nebuchadnezzar HAD TAKEN FROM
THE TEMPLE, THAT WAS IN
Jerusalem AND CARRIED INTO The Temple OF Babylon, THOSE, King Cyrus TOOK FROM The
Temple OF Babylon, AND They WERE GIVEN, TO ONE NAMED Sheshbazzar, Whom He (King
Cyrus) HAD MADE Governor. AND He (King Cyrus) SAID
TO Him (Sheshbazzar), ‘TAKE THESE ARTICLES; GO, CARRY Them TO THE TEMPLE SITE, THAT IS IN Jerusalem, AND LET THE HOUSE OF GOD
(GOD Almighty) BE REBUILT, ON ITS FORMER SITE.’ THEN,
The Same Sheshbazzar CAME AND LAID THE
FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF GOD (GOD Almighty), WHICH IS IN Jerusalem; BUT FROM THAT TIME, EVEN UNTIL
NOW, IT Has Been Under Construction, AND IT IS NOT Finished.”
Isaiah 44:24, 28
THUS SAYS THE LORD (GOD Almighty), Your REDEEMER, AND HE WHO FORMED YOU FROM The Womb: “I AM THE LORD, WHO MAKES ALL THINGS,
WHO STRETCHES OUT The Heavens,
ALL ALONE, WHO
SPREADS ABROAD The Earth, BY MYSELF; WHO SAYS OF (King) Cyrus, ‘He (King Cyrus) IS My Shepherd, AND He (King Cyrus) SHALL PERFORM ALL
My Pleasure, SAYING
TO Jerusalem, “YOU SHALL BE BUILT,” AND TO THE TEMPLE, “Your Foundation SHALL BE LAID.”’
Isaiah 45:1-13
“THIS SAYS THE LORD
(GOD Almighty) TO His ANOINTED, TO (King) Cyrus, Whose Right Hand I HAVE HELD,
TO SUBDUE Nations BEFORE Him (King Cyrus) AND LOOSE The
Armor OF Kings, TO OPEN BEFORE Him (King Cyrus) The
Double Doors, SO That The Gates WILL NOT BE SHUT:
‘I WILL GO BEFORE YOU AND MAKE The
Crooked Places STRAIGHT; I WILL BREAK IN PIECES The Gates OF
Bronze AND CUT The Bars OF Iron. I WILL GIVE YOU The Treasures
OF Darkness AND HIDDEN RICHES OF SECRET PLACES, That YOU MAY KNOW THAT I, THE LORD, WHO CALL YOU BY Your Name, AM THE GOD (GOD
Almighty) OF Israel.
FOR Jacob, My Servant’s Sake, AND Israel, My Elect,
I HAVE EVEN CALLED YOU (King Cyrus) BY Your Name; I HAVE NAMED YOU, THOUGH YOU Have NOT Known Me. I AM THE LORD (GOD Almighty), AND THERE IS NO Other; THERE IS NO God, BESIDES Me
(GOD Almighty). I WILL GIRD YOU, THOUGH YOU Have NOT Known
Me, That They MAY KNOW, FROM The Rising OF The Sun TO ITS
Setting, That THERE IS NONE, BESIDES Me (GOD
Almighty).
I AM THE LORD
(GOD Almighty), AND THERE IS NO Other; I FORM THE LIGHT AND CREATE
Darkness, I MAKE PEACE AND CREATE Calamity; I, THE LORD (GOD Almighty), DO ALL THESE THINGS.’
“RAIN DOWN, YOU Heavens, FROM
ABOVE, AND LET The Skies POUR DOWN RIGHTEOUSNESS; LET
The Earth OPEN, LET Them BRING FORTH SALVATION, AND LET
RIGHTEOUSNESS SPRING UP TOGETHER.
I, THE LORD
(GOD Almighty), HAVE CREATED IT.”
“WOE TO Him, Who STRIVES WITH
His Maker! Let The Potsherd STRIVE WITH The Potsherds OF
The Earth! Shall
The Clay SAY TO Him Who FORMS IT, ‘WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?’ OR Shall Your Handiwork SAY, ‘HE HAS NO HANDS? WOE TO Him, Who SAYS TO His father, ‘WHAT ARE YOU
BEGETTING?’ OR TO
The Woman, ‘WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT FORTH?’”
THUS SAYS THE LORD
(GOD Almighty), THE HOLY ONE OF Israel, AND His Maker: “ASK ME
OF THINGS TO COME, CONCERNING My Sons; AND CONCERNING THE
WORK OF My Hands, YOU COMMAND Me.
I HAVE MADE The Earth, AND CREATED Man ON IT. I, My Hands, STRETCHED OUT
The Heavens, AND All Their Host, I HAVE COMMANDED.
I HAVE RAISED Him UP, IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND I WILL DIRECT All His Ways; He (King
Cyrus) Shall BUILD My City (Jerusalem) AND LET My Exiles
GO FREE, NOT For Price NOR Reward,” SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS (GOD Almighty).
[NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO LEARN
MORE, READ 2 Chronicles 36:15-23, Ezra 1:1 THROUGH Ezra 5:17, Isaiah 44:24-28,
AND Isaiah 45:1-13].
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