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Ezra 1:5

BenjaminJerusalem
Serving othersThe Holy Spirit

3 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

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.

6 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

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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.

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  • Ezra 1:1

    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:22

    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

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  • Philippians 2:13

    For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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  • James 1:16–17

    Do not err, my beloved brethren.

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  • Nehemiah 2:12

    And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

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  • 2 Corinthians 8:16

    But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

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  • Proverbs 16:1

    The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

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  • 3 John 1:11

    Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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