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Ezra 4:19 · BSB
4:19 I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.
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…the building in the middle of it, and they kind of went about their own lives for a period of fourteen years. Then in 520 BC, something happened.Ezra chapter 4says the “work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.” Second…
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…sometimes with people who interpret the book of Nehemiah is they miss this aspect. You might remember, I've talked to you about it before, inEzra chapter 4, which is all the same book as Nehemiah, there's this little aside. And in the aside, it just paints a picture of over 100 years and…
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We are inEzra chapter 4this morning. This is a unique passage of scripture because it's it kind of chops up the narrative a little bit. So I'm going to read through it…
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…Sambaleth threatens to take these accusations to the king of Persia himself unless Nehemiah comes to meet with them. We can look back, though, atEzra chapter 4. And in Ezra chapter 4, uh, this exact same type of accusations were made against the people of Israel in their rebuilding of the temple. And the…
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…had been halted and put to a stop because they had met opposition uh from within Persia in their efforts to reconstruct all of what Israel was. InEzra chapter 4, we read about these uh people called the adversaries of Benjamin and Judah. Now, the adversaries of Benjamin and Judah, they were more than likely…
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…And so God's people, to much fanfare and rejoicing, they begin to build the temple again in Jerusalem in 536 BC. And you can read about that inEzra chapter 4. But the thing is, 16 years after that initial bit of enthusiasm, Project Temple 2.0 has completely fizzled out. The people have just lost the…
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…Samaritans Samaritans were accustomed to being treated as second class Jews they were never fully received into the covenant community of God inEzra chapter 4when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple the Samaritans approached these Jews and said to them let us build with you for…
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…he had asked for letters to give to the governors so that they would not attack him or try to run him out of the city like they had done before inEzra chapter 4when they tried to rebuild the walls in the city. They had rebuilt the temple, but he wanted letters from the king because Artaxerxes was the one…
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…most profitable for the Persian Empire at this time. We know that Artaxerxes doesn't have any particular love for Yahweh because we already read inEzra chapter 4that he shut down some of Nehemiah's wall building projects a few years later. So it's not that he's converting to Yahweh worship, but…
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Well, what doesEzra chapter 4have in common with Chick-fil-A? Oh goodness. And you know the news you've been following, I'm sure, with the uh difficulty with Chick-fil-A, that…
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…in, the surrounding neighbors are hearing about this and they object, and they're going to cause problems. We'll see these problems next week inEzra chapter 4. But it's fascinating to me that their enemies start circling, and so they're in a rush. What is the first thing they do? Uh-oh, our enemies are…
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…been almost 150 years ago when he first carried off the people of Israel into exile. Most likely, it was bad news about a more recent setback. InEzra chapter 4, Ezra chapter 4 includes one incident that sort of fast-forwards to the time of King Artaxerxes and time of the book… sort of between… probably…
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Well, good morning, church. Our text today isEzra chapter 4. That starts on page 363 of the Pew Bible, I believe. Go ahead and turn there with me. That's Ezra chapter 4. As we come to God's word together,…
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…year of Cyrus' reign, and the building gets stopped. And this is because new enemies of Israel have arrived on the scene. This is described inEzra chapter 4. The building gets stopped. Now it doesn't get stopped indefinitely, it gets resumed again, but there's a lot of political negotiations that go…
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…need to understand the task that was ahead of him before we move on. He's serving as the cupbearer of King Artaxerxes. Artaxerxes, you can read inEzra chapter 4, has put out an edict to stop the building of the wall. The wall was being built some 20 years earlier. There was an effort being put forward to do…
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