Ezra 1:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezra 1:5

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.

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Only a portion of the Israelites took advantage of the permission of Cyrus. Many remained in Babylon, since they were disinclined to relinquish their property. They who returned were persons whom God had especially stirred up to make sacrifices for His glory.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The call and offer of the gospel are like Cyrus's proclamation. Deliverance is preached to the captives, Luke iv. Those that are bound under the unrighteous dominion of sin, and bound over to the righteous judgment of God, may be made free by Jesus Christ.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּק֜וּמוּ	vai.ya.Ku.mu	and they arose	H6965 →
רָאשֵׁ֣י	ra.Shei	[the] heads of	H7218 →
הָאָב֗וֹת	ha.'a.Vot	the fathers	H1 →
לִֽיהוּדָה֙	li.hu.Dah	of Judah	H3063 →
וּבִנְיָמִ֔ן	u.vin.ya.Min	and Benjamin	H1144 →
וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים	ve.ha.ko.ha.Nim	and the priests	H3548 →
וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם	ve.hal.vi.Yim	and the Levites	H3881 →
לְכֹ֨ל	le.Khol	to every	H3605 →
הֵעִ֤יר	he.'Ir	[one whom] he had stirred up	H5782 →
הָאֱלֹהִים֙	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רוּח֔וֹ	ru.Cho	spirit his	H7307 →
לַעֲל֣וֹת	la.'a.Lot	to go up	H5927 →
לִבְנ֔וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃	bi.ru.sha.Lim	[is] in Jerusalem	H3389 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:21
  equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 2 Corinthians 3:5
  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Timothy 1:9
  He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- Romans 9:16
  So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10
  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…
Through
Ezra 1:1
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:10
  For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezra 7:27
  Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 36:22–23
  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…