Quotes about Community
By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 3:1
So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.
- Ezra 3:9
The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.
- Ezra 3:13
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
- Ezra 4:2
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
- Ezra 6:19
from the descendants of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men;
- Ezra 8:4
from the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men;
- Ezra 8:5
Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.
- Ezra 8:16
(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)
- Ezra 10:15
Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
- Ezra 10:32
Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
- Ezra 10:36
Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.
- Ezra 10:37