Maneno muhimu · the divine name (YHWH)
Ezra
יהוה Kiebrania · Strong’s H3068
Kila sentensi matumizi 37
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Kwa sasa maelezo yako kwa Kiingereza.
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah would be fulfilled, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout his whole kingdom and also put it in writing:
This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Whoever among you belongs to his people, may their God be with them, and let them go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin got ready, with the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred, to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
King Cyrus also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
Some of the heads of families, on coming to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, so that it could be set up again where it had stood.
They set the altar on its old foundations, because they were afraid of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, the morning and evening burnt offerings.
After that they offered the regular burnt offering, the offerings for the new moons and for all the appointed festivals of the LORD that had been made holy, and the offerings of everyone who brought a freewill offering to the LORD.
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, though the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not yet been laid.
In the second month of the second year after they came to the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak began the work, together with the rest of their people: the priests, the Levites and all who had come back to Jerusalem from captivity. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to oversee the work on the house of the LORD.
When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments were stationed with trumpets, and the Levites, the descendants of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD as David king of Israel had directed.
They sang in response to one another, praising and giving thanks to the LORD: “He is good; his faithful love for Israel lasts forever.” And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
The enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for the LORD the God of Israel.
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God. We alone will build it for the LORD the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”
The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to join them in seeking the LORD, the God of Israel.
For seven days they joyfully celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because the LORD had filled them with joy and had changed the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he supported them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.
this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe well versed in the law of Moses, which the LORD the God of Israel had given. The king granted him everything he asked, because the hand of the LORD his God was on him.
For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and rulings in Israel.
This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD for Israel:
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our ancestors, who put it into the king’s heart to bring honor to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
and who has shown me faithful love before the king, his counselors and all the king’s powerful officials. Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your ancestors.
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out before the leading priests and Levites and the heads of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, in the storerooms of the house of the LORD.”
The returned exiles who had come from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
At the evening offering I got up from my fasting, with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God.
But now, for a short time, the LORD our God has shown us favor. He has left us a remnant who escaped and has given us a secure hold in his holy place. So our God has brightened our eyes and given us a little new life in our slavery.
LORD, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant that escaped, as we are today. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand in your presence.”
Now make confession to the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from your foreign wives.”