Ezra 2:1

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These are the people of the province that came back from captivity. In the past, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took these people as prisoners to Babylon. These people came back to Jerusalem and Judah. Each person went back to his own town.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:11

Nebuzaradan captured all the people that were still left in the city. Nebuzaradan took all the people as prisoners, even the people who had tried to surrender.

1 Chronicles 9:1

The names of all the people of Israel were listed in their family histories. Those family histories were put in the book The History of the Kings of Israel.

1 Chronicles 9:2

The first people to come back and live in their own lands and towns were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and servants that work in the temple. {\cf2\super [85]}

Ezra 1:11

All together, there were 5,400 things made from gold and silver. Sheshbazzar {\cf2\super [5]} brought all these things with him when the prisoners left Babylon and went back to Jerusalem.

Ezra 2:2

These are the people who returned with Zerubbabel: {\cf2\super [6]} Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the list of names and numbers of men from Israel that came back:

Ezra 2:70

So the priests, Levites, and some of the other people moved to Jerusalem and the area around it. This group included the \{temple\} singers, gatekeepers, and the temple servants. The other people of Israel settled in their own home towns.

Ezra 5:8

King Darius, you should know that we went to the province of Judah. We went to the temple of the great God. The people in Judah are building that temple with large stones. They are putting big wooden timbers in the walls. The work is being done with much care and the people of Judah are working very hard. They are building very fast; it will soon be done.

Ezra 6:2

A scroll {\cf2\super [30]} was found in the fortress {\cf2\super [31]} of Ecbatana. Ecbatana is in the province of Media. This is what was written on that scroll:

Ezra 8:35

Then the Jewish people that came back from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel. They offered twelve bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 male lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

Nehemiah 12:1

These are the priests and Levites that came back to the land of Judah. They came back with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua. This is a list of their names: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Esther 1:1

This is what happened during the time that Xerxes was king. Xerxes ruled over the 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.

Esther 1:3

In the third year of Xerxes’ rule, he gave a party for his officers and leaders. The army leaders and important leaders from all of Persia and Media were there.

Esther 1:8

The king had given a command to his servants. He told them that each guest must be given as much wine as he wanted. And the wine server obeyed the king.

Esther 8:9

Very quickly the king’s secretaries were called. This was done on the 23rd day of the third month, the month of Sivan. Those secretaries wrote out all of Mordecai’s commands to the Jews, and to the satraps (leaders), the governors, and officials of the 127 provinces. Those provinces reached from India to Ethiopia. Those commands were written in the language of each province. And they were translated into the language of each group of people. And those commands were written to the Jews in their own language and their own alphabet.

Isaiah 48:20

My people, leave Babylon!\par My people, run from the Chaldeans!\par Tell this news with joy to the people!\par Spread this news to the faraway places\par on earth!\par Tell the people,\par “The Lord rescued his servant Jacob!\par

Jeremiah 50:19

“I will bring Israel back to his own fields.\par He will eat food that grows\par on Mount Carmel\par and in the land of Bashan.\par He will eat and be full.\par He will eat on the hills\par in the lands of Ephraim and Gilead.”\par

Lamentations 1:3

Judah suffered very much.\par And then Judah was taken into captivity.\par Judah lives among other nations.\par But she has found no rest.\par The people that chased her caught her.\par They caught her in the narrow valleys.\par

Lamentations 1:5

Jerusalem’s enemies have won.\par Her enemies have been successful.\par This happened because the Lord\par punished her.\par He punished Jerusalem for her many sins.\par Her children have gone away.\par Their enemies captured them\par and took them away.\par

Lamentations 4:22

Your punishment is complete, Zion. {\cf2\super [32]} \par You will not go into captivity again.\par But the Lord will punish your sins,\par people of Edom.\par He will uncover your sins.\par

Zephaniah 2:7

Then that land will belong to the survivors {\cf2\super [16]} from Judah. The Lord will remember those people from Judah. Those people are prisoners in a foreign country. But the Lord will bring them back. Then the people from Judah will let their sheep eat the grass in those fields. In the evenings, they will lie down in the empty houses of Ashkelon.

Acts 23:34

The governor read the letter. Then he asked Paul, “What country are you from?” The governor learned that Paul was from Cilicia.