Nehemiah 10
1 Those who sealed it were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah. Zedekiah, 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah, 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluk, 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,…
Nehemiah 11
The New Residents of Jerusalem 1 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of…
Nehemiah 12
Priests and Levites 1 These were the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Joshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah, Malluk, Hattush, 3 Shekaniah, Rehum,…
Nehemiah 13
Nehemiah’s Final Reforms 1 On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or…
Ezra 1
Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of theLordspoken by Jeremiah, theLordmoved the heart of…
Ezra 2
The List of the Exiles Who Returned 1 Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon…
Ezra 3
Rebuilding the Altar 1 When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. 2 Then Joshua son of…
Ezra 4
Opposition to the Rebuilding 1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for theLord, the God of Israel, 2 they came to…
Ezra 5
Tattenai’s Letter to Darius 1 Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the…
Ezra 6
The Decree of Darius 1 King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon. 2 A scroll was found in the…