Ezra 5:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then this same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of God’s house in Jerusalem.  It has been under construction from that time until now,  but it has not been completed.

Cross References

Ezra 6:15

This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar  in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Ezra 3:10

When the builders had laid the foundation of the Lord’s temple, the priests, dressed in their robes and holding trumpets, and the Levites descended from Asaph,  holding cymbals, took their positions to praise the Lord, as King David of Israel had instructed.

Ezra 3:8

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak,  and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the Lord’s house.

Zechariah 4:10

For who despises the day of small things?  These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the ceremonial stone  in Zerubbabel’s hand.’

Haggai 2:18

From this day on, think carefully;  from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; think carefully.

Ezra 5:2

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak  began to rebuild God’s house in Jerusalem. The prophets of God  were with them, helping them.

John 2:20

Therefore the Jews said, ‘This temple took forty-six years to build,  and will you raise it up in three days? ’

Ezra 5:14

He also took from the temple in Babylon the gold and silver articles of God’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and carried them to the temple in Babylon.  He released them from the temple in Babylon to a man named Sheshbazzar, the governor by the appointment of King Cyrus.

Ezra 5:15

Cyrus told him, ‘Take these articles, put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its original site.’

Zechariah 4:9

‘Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house,  and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Armies has sent me to you.