Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, Neh 2:11Ch 6:4-142Ki 22:4Ezr 6:14Ezr 7:12Ezr 7:211Ch 9:112Ch 34:15 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 1Ki 2:352Sa 8:17 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest— 1Ch 24:1-61Ch 6:41Ch 6:50-522Ch 19:112Ch 26:20Exo 6:25Heb 5:4Jdg 20:28 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the LORD his God’s hand on him. Ezr 8:22Ezr 7:28Ezr 8:31Neh 2:18Ezr 7:21Mat 28:20Neh 2:8Ezr 7:11-12 Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. Ezr 8:1-201Ch 25:1-81Ch 6:31-481Ch 9:17-27Ezr 2:40-70Ezr 6:14Ezr 7:11-12Ezr 7:24 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him. Ezr 7:6Neh 2:8Neh 2:18 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the LORD’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel. 2Ti 4:2Mal 2:7Mat 7:24Jhn 13:17Psa 1:2Ezr 7:25Psa 19:71Ch 29:18
Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the LORD’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel: Ezr 4:11Ezr 5:6Ezr 7:6Mat 23:13Mat 23:2Mrk 7:1-13
Artaxerxes, king of kings, Dan 2:37Ezk 26:7Ezr 4:171Ki 20:11Ki 4:241Ti 6:15Dan 2:47Ezr 4:10-11
To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
Now I make a decree that all those of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you. Ezr 6:12Ch 30:5Est 3:15Est 9:14Ezr 1:3Ezr 5:13Php 2:13Psa 110:3 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand, Est 1:14Dan 2:47Dan 6:20Dan 6:26Deu 17:18-19Ezr 1:3Ezr 5:8Ezr 6:12 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem, 2Ch 6:2Psa 135:21Ezr 6:121Ch 29:62Ch 2:62Ch 6:6Ezr 6:4Ezr 6:8-10 and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem. 1Ch 29:61Ch 29:9Ezr 1:4Ezr 1:61Ch 29:172Co 8:122Co 9:7Ezr 8:25-28 Therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. Deu 12:5-11Ezr 6:9-10Num 15:4-13Deu 14:24-26Jhn 2:14Mat 21:12-13 Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God. 2Ki 12:152Ki 22:7Eph 5:17Ezr 7:26 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem. 2Ch 32:19Ezr 8:27-30Ezr 8:33-34Jer 3:17 Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house. Ezr 6:4Ezr 6:8-18
I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence, Ezr 4:16Ezr 7:6Ezr 4:20Ezr 6:6Ezr 7:10-13 up to one hundred talents 1 of silver, and to one hundred cors 2 of wheat, and to one hundred baths 3 of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. Ezk 45:14Lev 2:13Luk 16:6-7 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? Psa 119:4Ezr 6:10-12Ezr 7:13Ezr 7:18Zec 12:3
Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God. Ezr 4:13Ezr 7:7Ezr 2:36-55Ezr 4:20
You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them. Deu 16:18Ezr 7:10Jas 1:5Jas 3:17-18Mal 2:7Psa 19:71Ch 22:121Ch 23:4 Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. Ezr 6:11Deu 13:1-18Lev 20:1-27Exo 21:1-22Dan 6:262Ch 30:12Dan 3:28-29Psa 52:5
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem; Ezr 6:22Rev 17:17Isa 60:132Co 8:16Heb 10:16Jas 1:17Neh 2:12Neh 2:8 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the LORD my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me. 2Ti 4:17-18Ezr 5:5Ezr 8:18Ezr 9:9Gen 32:28Neh 2:8Ezr 7:9Gen 43:14