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Bible Stories from Ezra
Every story from Ezra in the When God Shows Up devotionals, in Bible order. Each one is retold in plain words, with the passage to read for yourself in the King James Version and its key verse.
- Shouting and WeepingEzra 1:1–4; 3:1–13
For seventy years, God’s people had lived in exile in Babylon. Jerusalem lay in ruins. Solomon’s magnificent temple had been burned to the ground. Then…
“And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.”Ezra 3:11 (KJV)
- The Glory of the Latter HouseEzra 3:10–13; Haggai 2:1–9
After seventy years in exile, some of the Jews returned to Jerusalem and began rebuilding the temple. When the foundation was laid, the younger people…
“The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”Haggai 2:9 (KJV)
- The Good Hand of GodEzra 7:1–28; 8:21–23
Ezra was a scholar and a priest living in Babylon, generations after the Jews had been carried into exile. Some of his people had already gone back to…
“This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.”Ezra 7:6 (KJV)
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