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Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

over 9 years ago

be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Ezra 3:11 ESV

And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel." 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.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Ezra 3:2 ESV

Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Ezra 1:11 ESV

all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted Ezra 1:5 ESV

Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

over 9 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.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:23 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. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.'"

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:16 ESV

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:12 ESV

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:9 ESV

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:5 ESV

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:3 ESV

Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:22 ESV

Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:19 ESV

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 35:16 ESV

So all the service of the Lord was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:32 ESV

Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

over 9 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:30 ESV

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.

over 9 years ago

Sandra.Long972

highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:31 ESV

And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

over 9 years ago

Sandra.Long972

highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:27 ESV

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

over 9 years ago

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