Ezra
Ezra in full in the Berean Standard Bible (10 chapters): read it chapter by chapter and compare translations.
Chapters of Ezra
- 1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD…
- 2Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon…
- 3By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
- 4When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,
- 5Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the…
- 6Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
- 7Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the…
- 8These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the…
- 9After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel…
- 10While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very…