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highlighted Ezra 10:10 ESV
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 10:6 ESV
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 10:3 ESV
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 10:1 ESV
While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 9:15 ESV
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 9:14 ESV
shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 9:9 ESV
For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 9:6 ESV
saying: "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, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 9:5 ESV
And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:32 ESV
We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:31 ESV
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:28 ESV
And I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:23 ESV
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:22 ESV
For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, "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."
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 8:21 ESV
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 7:27 ESV
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 7:23 ESV
Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 7:13 ESV
I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 6:19 ESV
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.
about 10 years ago
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highlighted Ezra 1:2 ESV
"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
about 10 years ago