These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ezra 5
Tanakh 17 verses
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Now the prophets, the , and the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in and ; in the of the of prophesied they unto them.
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- 2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of which is at ; and with them were the prophets of , helping them.
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At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them: ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this structure?’
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- 4 Then spoke we unto them after this manner [, wrote they]: What are the names of the men that build this building?’
- 5 But the eye of their was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
- 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharesachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the ;
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they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: ‘Unto Darius the , all .
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- 8 Be it known unto the , that we went into the province of , to the house of the great , which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth on with diligence and prospereth in their hands.
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Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
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- 10 We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
- 11 And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the of and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great of builded and finished.
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But because that our fathers had provoked the of , He gave them into the hand of of , the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into .
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2 Chronicles 36:16-17 2 Kings 24:2 2 Chronicles 34:24-25 Jeremiah 39:1-14 Daniel 1:1-2 Deuteronomy 31:17 Judges 6:1 2 Kings 21:12-15 2 Kings 25:1 2 Chronicles 36:6-10 2 Kings 24:10-17 Jeremiah 5:29 Deuteronomy 32:30 2 Chronicles 7:19-22 2 Kings 25:8-30 Isaiah 59:1-2 Judges 2:14 Nehemiah 9:26-27 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 1 Kings 9:6-9 Daniel 9:5 Judges 4:2 Psalm 106:40 Deuteronomy 29:24-28 -
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But in the first year of Cyrus of , Cyrus the made a decree to build this house of .
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- 14 And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of , which took out of the that was in , and brought them into the of , those did Cyrus the take out of the of , and they were delivered unto one whose was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- 15 and he said unto him: Take these vessels, go, put them in the that is in , and let the house of be builded in its place.
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Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of which is in ; and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not completed.
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Now therefore, if it seem good to the , let search be made in the king’s treasure-house there, which is at , whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the to build this house of at , and let the send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.’
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