Ezra 5:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

So Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the priest urged the people to start working on the temple again, and God's prophets encouraged them.

Cross References

Ezra 1:8

Cyrus placed Mithredath, his chief treasurer, in charge of these things. Mithredath counted them and gave a list to Sheshbazzar, the governor of Judah.

Ezra 10:18

Here is a list of the priests who had agreed to divorce their foreign wives and to sacrifice a ram as a sin offering: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah from the family of Joshua son of Jozadak and his brothers;

Ezra 3:2

The priest Joshua son of Jozadak, together with the other priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his relatives rebuilt the altar of Israel's God. Then they were able to offer sacrifices there by following the instructions God had given to Moses.

Ezra 3:8

During the second month of the second year after the people had returned from Babylonia, they started rebuilding the LORD's temple. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the priests, the Levites, and everyone else who had returned started working. Every Levite over twenty years of age was put in charge of some part of the work.

Ezra 6:14

With great success the Jewish leaders continued working on the temple, while Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them by their preaching. And so, the temple was completed at the command of the God of Israel and by the orders of kings Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes of Persia.

Haggai 2:18

Today you have completed the foundation for my temple, so listen to what your future will be like.

Zechariah 4:14

Then he told me, “These branches are the two chosen leaders who stand beside the Lord of all the earth.”

Zechariah 4:4

But, sir, what do these mean?”

Zechariah 8:9

I am the LORD All-Powerful! So don't give up. Think about the message my prophets spoke when the foundation of my temple was laid.

2 Corinthians 1:24

We are not bosses who tell you what to believe. We are working with you to make you glad, because your faith is strong.