Quotes about Ezra
They hired counselors against them to frustrate their plans throughout the reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 4:5
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
- Ezra 4:8
(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
- Ezra 4:11
Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
- Ezra 4:17
Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
- Ezra 4:21
See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?
- Ezra 4:22
Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
- Ezra 5:1
The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
- Ezra 5:7
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- Ezra 5:9
We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
- Ezra 5:10
In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
- Ezra 5:13
and instructed, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’
- Ezra 5:15