Ezra 1:5

3 Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

4 And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

6 And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

7 King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
KJV
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
WEB
Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up, rose up to build the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem.
ASV
Then rose up the heads of fathers` [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.
DARBY
And the chief fathers of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests, and the Levites, even all those whose spirit God had stirred, to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem.
BLB
And the heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin arose, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [whose] spirit God had moved to go up and build the house of YHWH, which [is] in Jerusalem.
ÅB
Da gjorde Judas og Benjamins familiehoder og prestene og levittene - alle i hvis ånd Gud vakte slike tanker, seg rede til å dra opp for å bygge Herrens hus i Jerusalem.
OTB
Da gjorde overhodene for familiene i Juda og Benjamin, og prestene og levittene—alle som Gud hadde beveget ånden til—seg klare til å dra opp og bygge Herrens hus i Jerusalem.
B1930
Da gjorde Judas og Benjamins familiehoder og prestene og levittene - alle i hvis ånd Gud vakte slike tanker, sig rede til å dra op for å bygge Herrens hus i Jerusalem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ezra 1:1

    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:22

    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

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  • Philippians 2:13

    For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

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  • James 1:16–17

    Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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  • Nehemiah 2:12

    I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.

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  • 2 Corinthians 8:16

    But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.

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  • Proverbs 16:1

    The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

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  • 3 John 1:11

    Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

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