16 Ezra

16 Ezra 1:2-4
²Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahvah, god of the skies, has given me all the kingdoms of the land, and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which city is in Judah.
³Who is there among you of all his people? His god be with him, let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house to Yahvah the god of Israel, he is the god who is in Jerusalem.
⁴And whoever remains in any place where he temporarily resides, let the men of his place help him with silver and with gold and with goods and with animals, together with the freewill offering for the house of god, which is in Jerusalem.

16 Ezra 2:61-63
⁶¹And of the sons of the priests: sons of Habaiah, sons of Hakkoz, sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called after their name.
⁶²These sought their register among those who were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were removed from the priesthood.
⁶³And the leaders of Israel said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there should rise up a high priest who would make an inquiry and see about the matter.

16 Ezra 4:1-2
¹Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the captivity were building the house to Yahvah, god of Israel,
²they came to Zerubbabel and to the chiefs of the fathers and said to them, Let us also build with you; for we seek your god as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us up here.

16 Ezra 4:24-5:0
²⁴Then ceased the work of the house of god which is in Jerusalem. And it ceased until the 2nd year of the reign of Darius, king of Persia.

16 Ezra 9:1
¹Now when these things were completed, the elders came to me saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

16 Ezra 9:8-9
⁸And now, for a little while, grace has been shown from Yahvah our god, to leave us a remnant and to give us a place in his holy land, that our god may lighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.
⁹For we are bondmen; yet our god has not forsaken us in our bondage, but our god has granted mercy in the sight of the kings of Persia, and has cared for us today, to set up the house of our god and to repair its ruins and to give us a secure place in Judah and in Jerusalem.

16 Ezra 9:12
¹²Now do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your sons forever.

16 Ezra 10:1
¹Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, prostrating himself and weeping before the house of Yahvah, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and sons; for the sons wept bitterly.

16 Ezra 10:2-3
²And Shechaniah the son of Nehael, 1 of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra the scribe, We have transgressed against our god, and have taken foreign wives of the people of the land; now is there any hope for Israel concerning this thing?
³Therefore let us make a contract with our god to put away all the alien wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of our master and of those who tremble at the law of our god and his commandment; do it now and be strong.

16 Ezra 10:7-8
⁷And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
⁸and that whoever would not come within 3 days, it should be done to him according to the counsel of the elders and the chiefs, all his wealth could be forfeited and he himself separated from the people of Israel.