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EZRA: REBUILDING THE TEMPLE

RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL,
1-6

RETURN UNDER EZRA,
7-10

Return decreed & described,
1-2

Return decreed & described,
7-8

Restoration of Temple worship begun,
3

Repentance of the remnant,
9-10

Resistance encountered,
4

Restoration resumed,
5

Restoration completed,
6


Major Characters #

  • Ezra “help”
  • Cyrus – 559-530 bc
  • Darius I (Hystapes) — 522-486 bc
  • Artaxerxes I — 464-465 bc
  • Haggai (“festive, festival”)
  • Zechariah “Jehovah remembers”)

Major words/phrases #

  • “hand of the Lord his God upon him…”, 7:6, 9, 28; 8:18, 22, 31
  • decrees of kings
    • Cyrus, 1
    • Darius, 5-6
    • Artaxerxes, 7

Major themes #

  • Sovereignty of God
  • Goodness of God
  • Restoration to the promised land
  • Restoration of temple worship
  • The problem of pagan wives, 9-10
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