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Download Story Planner: Ezra returns to Jerusalem A free Story Planner PDF can be downloaded. It shows the images with a short description of what is happening in each scene.
More than 1,800 images illustrating the Book of Ezra with modern and historic photographs of ancient sites, museum artifacts, and cultural scenes.
Ezra. Images are provided as a visual aid for various events portrayed by biblical accounts. By no means are certain images meant to accurately portray the appearance of God or to limit Him in any way.
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- Background to Ezra’s Call For Restoration
- Restoration of The Land
- Restoration of The People
- Restoration of The Bible
That faithfulness is clearly seen as we trace the history of the Jewish people through very difficult times. The Bible records the devastation wrought upon the kingdom of Judah and Jerusalem by the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (2 Kings 24–25, 2 Chron. 36) in 586 BC. The Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple and slaughtered a great mult...
The book of Ezra immerses us in the complexities of this challenging time in history. The Jews had returned to find their homeland desolate. Though restoration had begun, tough times lay ahead. Ezra 1:1 takes a backward look at history and recalls the time when Cyrus first issued his decree that the Jews could return to Israel. Seventy years had go...
Ezra 1:1–4:5 recounts the first wave of exiles returning to Jerusalem and rebuilding the altar to the Lord in the place of the Temple ruins. We read that the “priests and Levites and heads of the fathers’ houses” who were old men remembered the splendor of the First Temple and “wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid befo...
In Ezra’s time, all the books comprising the Tanakh (OT) had not been written yet. His Bible would have included the first five books of Moses and other Scriptures he had access to, such as the Writings and some of the Prophets. I believe the word “Bible” should communicate to us the concept of the entire Scriptures and the Word of God. Ezra arguab...
The book is divided into two parts: the first part (chapters 1-6) tells the story of the return of the Jews to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the temple, while the second part (chapters 7-10) focuses on Ezra's reforms and the establishment of the Jewish law.
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