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Ezra
Introduction
The account of Ezra, is like a continuation of The Chronicles. It’s told here about the returning home of other Jews who had been taken to Babylon as captives, and the returning of living and worshipping in Yerushalem (Jerusalem). It’s divided into three main sections: 1.) The declaration of King Koresh (Cyrus) of Persia (Heb. Paras) to allow a group of exiled Jews to return to Yerushalem from Babylon. 2.) The rebuilding of the temple and its dedication, and the return to worshipping Yahweh there in Yerushalem. 3.) XXX The returning home there to Yerushalem of that different e again group of Jews impanguluwan of Ezra, the one knowledgable of Law of God. He assisted the Israelis to return to their beliefs and customs, so that their worshipping of the true God wouldn’t be forgotten.
Main components of this account
The first group of exiled Jews return home 1:1-2:70
The rebuilding of the temple and its dedication 3:1-6:22
The returning home of Ezra and other exiles 7:1-10:44
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1 In the first year that Koresh (Cyrus) was king of Persia (Heb. Paras), Yahweh stirred up his spirit in order to fulfil what he’d spoken through the prophet Yirmeyah (Jeremiah).[ref] So the king distributed a written proclamation throughout his kingdom, saying, 2 “Koresh, king of Persia, declares this: Yahweh, the god of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms in the world, and he’s appointed me to build a residence for him in Yerushalem in Yehudah.[ref] 3 Anyone among you who’s one of his followers is free to go to Yerushalem (in Yehudah) to help build a temple there for Israel’s God Yahweh—the god of Yerushalem. May God go with you. 4 Those who live near these people but who’re not going themselves, should donate gold and silver, and goods and livestock, plus cash as a voluntary offering for God’s temple in Yerushalem.
5 Then some of the leaders of Benyamin and Yehudah, and some priests and Levites—all of whom had had their spirits stirred up by God—left to go and build Yahweh’s residence in Yerushalem. 6 Their neighbours had helped them by donating gold and silver utensils, goods and livestock, and expensive gifts, as well as the voluntary offerings of cash.
7 Then King Koresh brought out the equipment from Yahweh’s temple that Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar) had brought all the way from Yerushalem and had put in the house of his gods. 8 He put the treasurer Mitedat in charge of bringing them out and Sheshbatstsar, the ruler of Yehudah, in charge of accepting them and listing them. 9 There were: thirty gold basins, one thousand silver basins, twenty-nine knives, 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls, and a thousand other utensils, 11 coming to a total of 5,400 gold and silver utensils. Sheshbatstsar took all of that with the group of exiles going from Babylon to Yerushalem.
2 Out of the captives that Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar) had brought as slaves to Babylon, these are their descendants who returned to Yerushalem in Yehudah—each person returning to their own ancestral town. 2 The ones who went with Zerubbabel were: Yeshua, Nehemyah, Serayah, Re’elayah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Ba’anah.
Their numbers were:
21 And from these towns:
43 The temple servants who returned:
55 The descendants of Shelomoh’s (Solomon’s) servants who returned:
58 Altogether there were 392 descendants of temple workers and Shelomoh’s servants who returned.
59 Another group went from the towns of Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Keruv, Addon, and Immer, but they didn’t know their ancestry from before they were taken as captives.
60 There were 652 people who were descendants of Delayah, Toviyyah, and Nekoda, 61 and from the sons of the priests: the descendants of Havayyah; the descendants of Hakkots; and the descendants of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, so he was called by their name. 62 They had searched for their records among the genealogies, but couldn’t find their families listed, so they were disqualified to serve as priests. 63 Also the governor told them that they mustn’t eat any of the holiest food until a priest could use the Urim and Thummim to determine their status.[ref]
64 Altogether in this group, 42,360 people returned to Yehudah. 65 not counting their 7,337 male and female servants, plus 200 male and female musicians. 66 They also took 736 horses and 245 mules, 67 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.
68 When some of the heads of families got to Yahweh’s temple in Yerushalem, they freely donated so that it could be rebuilt. 69 They each donated to the treasury according to their individual resources—a total of sixty-one thousand gold coins, five thousand silver bars, and a hundred sets of clothing for the priests.
70 So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the gatekeepers and the temple servants returned to live in their ancestral cities, and so all the Israeli cities had returnees living in them.[ref]
3 In the seventh month, the Israelis from their various cities, gathered together in unity in Yerushalem. 2 Then Yotsadak’s son Yeshua and his brothers the priests, and Shealti’el’s son Zerubavel and his brothers, and they built the altar to offer up burnt offerings to Israel’s God on it as is written in the law of Mosheh, the man of God.[ref] 3 They set the altar up on its foundation because they were worried about trouble from some of the other people groups in the region. Then they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on it as well as the regular morning and evening burnt offerings.[ref] 4 Then they observed the Celebration in Shelters as per the written instructions[ref] with a burnt offering each day as required. 5 After that was over, they kept up the regular burnt offerings, plus those for the new moons and other times that Yahweh required, as well as any free-will offerings to Yahweh.[ref] 6 Even though the temple foundation rebuilding hadn’t started yet, the people started sacrificing burnt offerings to Yahweh from the beginning of October.
7 They donated cash to the stone-workers and carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the workers from Tsidon (Sidon) and Tsor (Tyre) to float cedar logs along the coast from Lebananon into Port Yafo (Joppa) with the permission of Persian King Koresh (Cyrus).
8 In the second month of second year since their return to Yerushalem, Shealtiel’s son Zerubavel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and everyone except who’d returned to Yerushalem from captivity, began work on God’s residence, and they appointed the Levites who were twenty and over to act as overseers for the work of rebuilding Yahweh’s temple. 9 And Yeshua with his brothers and their sons, Kadmiel and his sons, (all descendants of Yehudah) cooperated to act as overseers for those doing the work at the temple together with Henadad’s sons and grandsons, and their brothers the Levites.
10 When the builders had laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they got the priests to stand there in their robes with their trumpets, and Asaf’s descendants (who were Levites) with their cymbals, to praise Yahweh using the rhythms composed by David, the former Israeli king.[ref] 11 Then they sang in response—praising and thanking Yahweh: “Yes, he is good, because his loyal commitment to Israel will continue forever.”
Then all the people shouted a great shout in praise to Yahweh because the foundation of Yahweh’s temple had been laid.[ref] 12 Many of the older priests and Levites, and clan leaders who’d seen the first temple, wept loudly when they witnessed the founding of this one, but others were shouting happily with loud voices. 13 So the people couldn’t differentiate the happy sounds from the sound of the people weeping, because the people were shouting very loudly and it could be heard from far away.
4 Now the enemies of Yehudah and Benyamin heard that the Israelis who’d come back from exile were building a temple for Israel’s God Yahweh. 2 so they went to Zerubavel and to the other clan leaders and they said to them, “Let us help you with the building work, because like you, we worship your God and we’ve been sacrificing to him since the days of the Assyrian king Esar-Haddon—the one who sent us here.”[ref]
3 But Zerubavel, and Yeshua, and the rest of the Israelis clan leaders said to them, “It’s not for you and for us to build a house for our God, but we ourselves together will build for Israel’s God Yahweh, just as the Persian King Koresh (Cyrus) has commanded us.”
4 Those local people had been discouraging the people of Yehudah and trying to stop them from building. 5 They’d also hired influencers to work against them throughout the reigns of the Persian kings Koresh (Cyrus) and Dareyavesh (Darius).
6 Now at the beginning of the reign of Ahashverosh (Ahasuerus or Xerxes), they forwarded an accusation against those who lived in Yerushalem and throughout Yehudah.
7 And in the days of Persian King Artahshasta (Artaxerxes), Bishlam, Mitredat, Taveel and the rest of their companions wrote to the king. (The letter was written in Aramaic (Syrian) and using that alphabet).
8 Rehum the high commissioner and Shimshai the provincial secretary wrote a letter to King Artahshasta against Yerushalem as follows:
9 From Rehum the high commissioner and Shimshai the provincial secretary, and the our companions, the judges and the rulers, the officials, the Persians, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the Susaites (that is, the Elamites), 10 and the rest of the nations that the famous and powerful King Asenappar exiled from other nations and forced them to live in the cities of Samaria, and the province went of the Euphrates river.
And now 11 this is what the letter said that they sent to him:
To Artahshasta (Artaxerxes) the king from your servants on this side of the river.
And now 12 let it be known to the king that the Jews who left your region have come to us at Yerushalem to rebuild that rebellious and evil city—they’re currently finishing the walls and repairing the building foundations. 13 Now let it be known to the king that if that city is built and the walls are completed, those people won’t pay taxes, or send tributes, and your royal treasury will lose out. 14 Now, because we’ve had the favour of the palace, and because we don’t want to see the king dishonoured, that’s why we’ve sent this letter to update the king, 15 so that he can search in the official records of the kingdom. You’ll discover and learn that that city of Yerushalem is a rebellious city and one that has caused harm to kings and provinces, and has harboured rebellion there for decades past—that’s why that city was destroyed. 16 We are letting the king know that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, then you’ll lose control of this province on this side of the Euphrates.”
“To Rehum the high commissioner and Shimshai the provincial secretary, and the rest of their companions who live in Shomron (Samaria), and the rest of the people in the province west of the Euphrates: Peace.
And now 18 the letter that you all sent to us has been carefully read aloud to me. 19 I ordered my officials to search the records and discovered that it’s true that that city has been rebellious and seditious since ancient times. 20 Powerful kings have reigned from Yerushalem and ruled the entire region that side of the river, and had taxes and tributes paid to them. 21 So command those Jews to stop rebuilding the city until such time as I make a decree. 22 Don’t be negligent in doing that or the damage to this kingdom might get worse.”
23 When King Artahshasta’s letter reached Rehum, Shimshai the secretary, and their companions, and was read aloud to them all, they immediately went to Yerushalem and used force to stop the Jews from their rebuilding.
24 So there was a period when the rebuilding of the temple in Yerushalem stopped, and it remained paused until the second year of King Dareyavesh’s reign in Persia.[ref]
5 Then the prophet Haggai and Iddo’s son Zecharyah prophesied to the Jews in Yerushalem and across Yehudah in the name of Israel’s God who they served.[ref] 2 Then Shealtiel’s son Zerubbabel and Yotsadak’s son Yeshua took action and began to rebuild God’s temple in Yerushalem, and the prophets who served God were there with them, supporting them.[ref]
3 At that time, Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the Euphrates, and Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions came to them and demanded, “Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?” 4 They also asked the Jews to tell them the names of the men who were working on the building. 5 However, God was watching over the Jewish leaders, and they weren’t actually stopped. A report was sent to King Dareyavesh, then they waited for a response. 6 Tattenai, the governor of the province west of the river, and Shetar-Bozenai and his companions, the provincial officials, sent the letter to King Dareyavesh (Darius)— 7 this is what was written in their report:
“To King Dareyavesh. All peace. 8 Let it be known to the king that we went to the province of Yehudah, to the temple of the great God, and it is being built with large stones, and timber is being placed in the walls. This work is being done to a high standard and they’re making good progress.
9 “Then we asked those elders, ‘Who gave you all permission to rebuild this temple?’ 10 We also asked them their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders to inform you.
11 “This is the answer they gave us, ‘We are servants of the God of the heavens and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was constructed and finished many years ago by a famous Israeli king. 12 However, because our ancestors made the God of the heavens angry, he let Babylonian King Nevukadnetstsar (Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean) defeat them, and he destroyed that temple and caused the people to be exiled to Babylon.[ref] 13 But in the first year of the reign of Babylonian King Koresh (Cyrus), he made a decree to rebuild this house of God.[ref] 14 What’s more, the gold and silver containers that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from that temple that was in Yerushalem and had brought to the temple in Babylon, King Koresh took them out from the temple in Babylon and they were handed over to the man named Sheshbatstsar who he’d appointed as governor over Yehudah. 15 Koresh had told him to take those containers and put them back in the temple in Yerushalem, and to ensure that the temple got rebuilt in the same place where it had been before. 16 So Sheshbatstsar came here and laid the foundation of God’s house in Yerushalem, and since then, it’s been being rebuilt but isn’t finished yet.’
17 So now, if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the records in the king’s treasure house there in Babylon, if it’s correct that a decree was set by King Koresh to rebuild this house of God in Yerushalem. Then let the king send his decision on this matter back to us.”
6 So King Dareyavesh (Darius) ordered that a search be conducted in all the archives where treasures had been deposited there in Babylon, 2 and one scroll was found in the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this record had been made:
3 “In year one of Koresh the king, he made a decree about the house of God in Yerushalem:
‘Let the house be built in the same place where sacrifices were made. Establish its foundations and build it 27m high and 27m wide 4 with three layers of large stones and a layer of new timber. That should all be paid for from the royal treasury. 5 Also, the gold and silver containers from the house of God that Nevukadnetstsar had taken out from the Yerushalem temple and had brought to Babylon, must be returned to their places in the temple in Yerushalem. So you must put them in the house of God.’ ”
6 Therefore King Dareyavesh wrote: “Now to Governor Tattenai in the province west of the Euphrates, Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions, the officials who in that province:
Keep away from that place. 7 Leave alone the work on that house of God. Let the Jewish governor and elders build that temple in its place. 8 So here’s my decree about what should be done for those Jewish elders to build that house of God: Using the king’s treasures that come from the tribute of that west-Euphrates province, let those workers costs be regularly reimbursed so that the work doesn’t stop. 9 Whatever is needed (including young bulls, or rams, or lambs for burnt offerings to the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, according to the command of the priests in Yerushalem), let it be given to them day by day (that is, without delay), 10 so that they can be offering sweet-smelling sacrifices to the God of the heavens and praying for the life of the king and his sons. 11 Also I decree that any man who changes this edict should have a beam pulled from his house, and after it’s sharpened and set into the ground, then he should be impaled on it. Then his entire house should be made into a rubbish heap because of what he did. 12 May the God who has established his name there overthrow any king or person who makes any attempt to change this decree or to destroy that house of God in Yerushalem. I, Dareyavesh, have made a decree. Let it be done diligently.”
13 Then Tattenai, the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shetar-Bozenai, and their companions worked hard to follow the instructions sent by King Dareyavesh (Darius). 14 So the Jewish elders continued building, and they were encouraged by the prophesying of the prophet Haggai and Iddo’s son Zekaryah. As a result of the decrees of the Persian kings Koresh, and Dareyavesh and Artahshasta, they were able to fulfil God’s decree to rebuild the temple.[ref] 15 The rebuilt temple was finished in mid-March in the sixth year of King Dareyavesh’s reign.
16 Then the Israeli people, the priests, and the Levites, and the ones that had returned from exile, performed the dedication of this house of God with celebrations. 17 During the dedication, they offered a hundred bulls, two-hundred rams, and four-hundred lambs, as well as twelve male goats for a sin offering for all Israel (matching the number of the tribes). 18 Then they organised the priests to stand in their divisions and the Levites in their sections to serve the God who resides in Yerushalem, according to the instructions written by Mosheh (Moses).
19 So the people who’d returned from exile celebrated the ‘pass-over’ in late April.[ref] 20 The priests and Levites all had to be individually purified, and they slaughtered the lambs for all the exiles and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves. 21 Then all the Israelis ate the meal—those who’d returned from the exile and every one who’d separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land in order to search for Israeli’s God Yahweh. 22 Then they happily enjoyed the Flat Bread Celebration for seven days, because Yahweh had made them happy, and had caused the Assyrian king to show favour to them, to assist their work rebuilding the house of God, the God of Israel.
7 Many years later in the reign of Persian King Artahshasta (Artaxerxes), Ezra (son of Serayah, son of Azaryah, son of Hilkiyyah, 2 son of Shallum, son of Tsadok, son of Ahitub, 3 son of Amaryah, son of Azaryah, son of Merayot, 4 son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, 5 son of Avishua, the son of Pinhas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the head priest) 6 was a skilled expert in the law that Israel’s God Yahweh had given through Mosheh (Moses). With the favour of his God Yahweh helping Ezra, the king had granted all his requests, and he travelled from Babylon to Yerushalem. 7 Some Israelis, including some priests and Levites, singers and gatekeepers, and some temple servants travelled to Yerushalem in the seventh year of Artahshasta’s reign.8-9 8-9They left Babylon on New Year’s Day (in early April) and with God’s favour on the journey, arrived in Yerushalem exactly four months later 10 because Ezra had made a firm resolution to study Yahweh’s written instructions, and to carefully follow them, and to teach them in Israel.
11 King Artahshasta (Artaxerxes) had given a letter for Ezra the priest and scribe and expert in Yahweh’s commands and instructions to take with him, saying:
12 Artahshasta, the king of kings, to the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heavens: Peace.
Now, 13 I hereby decree that anyone in my kingdom from Israel (including priests and Levites) who freely offers to go to Yerushalem with you, may go. 14 You are sent by the king and his seven counsellors to determine whether the people of Yehudah and Yerushalem are following the law of your God which you have a copy of. 15 You are also to take the gold and silver that the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel who lives in Jerusalem, 16 along with all the gold and silver that you collect all across Babylon, along with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests who freely give towards the house of God in Yerushalem.
17 So then you should diligently use those funds to buy bulls, rams, lambs, and supplies for their grain offerings and drink offerings, and you should offer them on the altar at the your God’s house in Yerushalem. 18 With the remaining funds, you can use them for whatever seems good to you and your brothers, according to the will of your God. 19 Also, make sure that you deliver all those gold and silver containers that were handed over to you for use in your God’s house in Yerushalem. 20 Anything else that’s needed for the house of your God that you need to supply can be provided from the king’s treasuries.
21 And I, King Artahshasta make a decree for all the treasurers in the province west of the river: that you all diligently help with everything that the priest Ezra (the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens) asks from you all— 22 up to three tonnes of silver, five hundred bushels of wheat, two thousand litres of wine and the same amount of olive oil, and as much salt as he needs. 23 Everything that the God of the heavens decreed to be done should be done exactly as he specified because there’s no good reason to make him angry at the kingdom of the king and his sons? 24 Also, it should be made clear that there is no authority to extract taxes or tribute from any priests or Levites, singers or the gatekeepers, the temple servants or the servants of that house of God.
25 As for you, Ezra, use the wisdom that your God has given to you to appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all the people who are in that province beyond the river—everyone who know the laws of your God (plus you should teach those who don’t know them). 26 Anyone who refuses to obey your God’s laws and the king’s laws, should receive swift judgment—whether it’s confiscation of goods, or banishment, imprisonment, or the death sentence.”
7:27 Ezra praises Yahweh
27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers who put it into the king’s heart to honour Yahweh’s house in Yerushalem, 28 and showed me his loyal commitment in dealing with the king and his counselors, and all the powerful officials of the king. And as for me, Yahweh my God blessed me with initiative and the strength to carry it out as I gathered some Israeli leaders to go to Yerushalem with me.
8 Now these are the family heads and their descendants by number who who went with me from Babylon to Yerushalem in the reign of King Artahshasta (Artaxerxes):
15 Firstly, I gathered them near the river that goes to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I interviewed the people and the priests and discovered that we didn’t have any Levites included in the group. 16 So I summoned the following leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemayah, Elnatan, Yarib, a second Elnatan, Natan, Zekaryah, and Meshullam, as well as the wise men: Yoyariv and a third Elnatan. 17 I commanded them to go to Iddo, the leader at Kasifya, and I told them to tell Iddo and his relatives (temple servants in Kasifya) to send us some Levites who would go to Yerushalem to serve in our God’s temple. 18 Then since we had God’s favour, they sent us a talented man (from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel) and eighteen of his sons and other relatives. 19 They also sent Hashavyah and Yeshayah (from Merari’s sons), and their relatives and sons—some twenty men— 20 plus two hundred and twenty descendants of Levite temple servants that King David and his officials had appointed for service—all designated by name.
21 Then right there by the river Ahava, I proclaimed a fast to humble ourselves in front of our God to request that he’d smooth the way ahead for us, and for our children, and for all our property, 22 because I was ashamed to request an army and horsemen from the king to help us from possible enemies on the way. Also, you see, we had previously told the king, “Our God does good to all those who honour him, but his might and his anger are against all those who abandon him.” 23 So we fasted and sought wisdom from our God concerning this, and he listened to our requests.
24 Then I chose twelve of the leaders of the priests along with with Sherevyah and Hashavyah and ten of the other Levites, 25 and as they watched, I weighed out the gold and silver, and the valuable utensils—the offering for the house of our God that the king, and his counsellors and officials, and all the exiled Israelis who could be contacted, had offered. 26 It came to three tonnes of gold, twenty-one tonnes of silver, and another three tonnes of silver containers, 27 as well as twenty gold bowls that weighed another eight kilograms, and two polished bronze containers that were as valuable as gold.
28 “You are sacred to Yahweh,” I told them all, “and the containers and utensils are sacred, and the gold and silver are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your ancestors. 29 Look after them all carefully until you weigh them out in front of the leaders of the priests and Levites and the leaders of the Israeli elders in the chambers of Yahweh’s house in Yerushalem.” 30 So the priests and the Levites accepted the receipt of the gold and silver, and the containers, to take them to Yerushalem—to the house of our God.
31 Then in mid-April, we set out from the river Ahava to go to Yerushalem, and we had God’s favour as he kept us safe from any enemies or ambushes on the way. 32 So we arrived at Yerushalem, and rested there for three days. 33 On the fourth day, the gold and silver and the containers and utensils were weighed out in the temple—being handed over to Uriyyah’s son Meremot, the priest, and with him was Pinhas’s son Eleazar (and with them were Yeshua’s son Yozavad, and Binnuy’s son Noadyah, the Levites). 34 They recorded all the items with their weights.
35 The descendants of the former captives who had returned from exile offered burnt offerings to Israel’s God: twelve bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, then twelve male goats for a sin offering. The whole was presented as a burnt offering to Yahweh. 36 They relayed the king’s orders to the governors and officials of the province beyond the river, and so they honoured the people and God’s house.
9 Now as soon as those things were finished, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands according to their abominations, of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite. 2 ◙ 3 ◙ 4 ◙