Ezra 1:2
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, who has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, has given me the responsibility to build a Temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
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1 Kings 8:27But will God really live here on earth? The heavens, even highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this Temple I have built!
Ezra 5:15telling him, Take these items and place them in the Temple in Jerusalem. Rebuild God's Temple on its original site.
Ezra 6:10In this way they can offer sacrifices that are acceptable to the God of heaven, and pray for the lives of the king and his sons.
Nehemiah 1:4When I heard the news, I sat down, weeping and mourning for days, fasting and praying to the God of heaven.
Psalms 85:2You took away your people's guilt; you forgave all their sins. Selah.
Isaiah 41:2Who has encouraged this one from the east who is called into God's service to do what is right? He gives him nations, and helps him trample kings underfoot. He makes them like dust with his sword, and turns them into chaff with his bow, blown before him on the wind.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 1:2-5
Ezra The Jewish church puts on quite another face in this book from what it had appeared with; its state much better, and more pleasant, than it was of late in Babylon, and yet far inferior to what it had been formerly. The dry bones here live again, but in the form of a servant; the yoke of their captivity is taken off, but the marks of it in their galled necks remain. Kings we hear no more of; the crown has fallen from their heads. Prophets they are blessed with, to direct them in their re-establishment, but,… Read the whole commentary →