Ezra

Treated in 16 passages across the library.

The return of the Jews from exile in Babylon. It tells how the first exiles came back under Zerubbabel and rebuilt the temple in spite of opposition, then how Ezra the priest and scribe brought a second company and taught the law of God. It ends with the people confessing and putting away their sins.

Chapters

Where it is preached

  1. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Justice of God cites Ezra 1:1

    …to do God’s work. Though they do not design his glory, yet they may promote it. Cyrus (Ezra 1:1) was instrumental in the building of God’s temple in Jerusalem. There is some kind of…

  2. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    II. It is no sign that affections have the nature of true religion, or that they have not, that they have great effects on the body cites Ezra 9:4

    …the strength of holy and spiritual affections; such as trembling,55 Psal. 119:120. Ezra 9:4. Isa. 66:2, 5. Hab. 3:16. groaning,66 Rom. 8:26. being sick,77 Cant. 2:5, and 5:8. crying…

  3. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    September cites Ezra 8:22

    …good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.” (Ezra 8:22) A convoy on many accounts would have been desirable for the pilgrim band, but a holy…

  4. Abide in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Day by Day cites Ezra iii. 4

    …to attain, is given to the soul that was content to take and use ‘every day his portion’ (Ezra iii. 4)-, ‘as the duty of every day required.’ Even here on earth the voice is heard: ‘Well…

  5. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites Ezra ix. 13

    …5). We can never love God as He deserves. As God’s punishing us is less than we deserve (Ezra ix. 13), so our loving Him is less than He deserves. (iv.) Love to God must be active. It is…

  6. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section XI. The Evidence of Gods Certain Foreknowledge of the Volitions of Moral Agents cites Ezra i. 1 – 4

    …building of the temple, (Isa. xliv. 28. and xlv. 13. compare 2 Chron. xxxvi. 22, 23. and Ezra i. 1 – 4.) How many instances of the moral conduct of the kings of the North and South, particular…

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