Bj Kalb

These are the memoirs of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem In late autumn, in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes’ reign, I was at the fortress of Susa....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 10

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and lying face down on the ground in front of the Temple of God, a very large crowd of people from Israel—men, women, and children—gathered and wept bitterly with him....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 9

When these things had been done, the Jewish leaders came to me and said, “Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 8

Here is a list of the family leaders and the genealogies of those who came with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:...

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 7

Many years later, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, there was a man named Ezra. He was the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,...

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 6

So King Darius issued orders that a search be made in the Babylonian archives, which were stored in the treasury....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 5

At that time the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied in the name of the God of Israel who was over them....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 4

The enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were rebuilding a Temple to the LORD, the God of Israel....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 3

In early autumn, when the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people assembled in Jerusalem with a unified purpose....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 2

Here is the list of the Jewish exiles of the provinces who returned from their captivity. King Nebuchadnezzar had deported them to Babylon, but now they returned to Jerusalem and the other towns in Judah where they originally lived....

over 11 years ago

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read Ezra 1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the LORD fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:...

over 11 years ago

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read 2 Chronicles 36

Then the people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem....

over 11 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 36:15 ESV

The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

over 11 years ago

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read 2 Chronicles 35

Then Josiah announced that the Passover of the LORD would be celebrated in Jerusalem, and so the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month....

over 11 years ago

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read 2 Chronicles 34

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years....

over 11 years ago

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read 2 Chronicles 32

After Hezekiah had faithfully carried out this work, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified towns, giving orders for his army to break through their walls....

over 11 years ago

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read 2 Chronicles 32

After Hezekiah had faithfully carried out this work, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified towns, giving orders for his army to break through their walls....

over 11 years ago

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highlighted 2 Chronicles 32:31 ESV

And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

over 11 years ago

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