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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:15-20 Forethought and initiative
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:15-20 Click to listen to this devotion. 15 I gathered them at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we encamped there for three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found that there were no Levites. Ezra stopped at one of the “pelegs” or canals (cp. Psalm […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 8:1-14 summary
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 8:1-14 Click to listen to this devotion. 8:1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, the genealogies of those who went up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 7:25-28 May the LORD be blessed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 7:25-28 Click to listen to this devotion. 25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you have, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the Trans-Euphrates, men who know the laws of your God. If there are any who do not know them, […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 7:18-24 Church and state
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 7:18-24 Click to listen to this devotion. 18 You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God. 19 Vessels have been given you for worship in the house of your God– you shall deliver […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 7:11-17 Permission to tax Babylon
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 7:11-17 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 This is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and the scribe, learned in matters about the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel: 12 “Artaxerxes, King of Kings,To Ezra the priest, the scribe of […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 7:1-10 a quick study
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 7:1-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 7:1 Now after this, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, 2 son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, 3 son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, 4 […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 6:19-22 Joy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 6:19-22 Click to listen to this devotion. 19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover. 20 Since the priests and the Levites together had purified themselves, all of them were ceremonially clean. They slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 6:13-18 The second temple is dedicated
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 6:13-18 Click to listen to this devotion. 13 Then, because of the decree sent by King Darius, Tattenai the governor of the Trans-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and their associates did what King Darius had ordered with all diligence. 14 The grey-haired elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper throughout the […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 6:6-12 Service with a smile
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 6:6-12 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the Trans-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and you, their fellow officials– the governors who are in the Trans-Euphrates, keep away from there. 7 Leave the work on the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and their […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 6:1-5 Put them in the house of God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 6:1-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 6:1 So King Darius made a decree, and they searched in the treasury of the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon. 2 And then in Ecbatana, the capital of the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 5:11-17 A keyword search in Persia
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 5:11-17 Click to listen to this devotion. (Tattenai continues his letter to King Darius): 11 “And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel […]
God’s Word for You – Ezra 5:6-10 Peace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUEZRA 5:6-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai the governor of the Trans-Euphrates and Shethar Bozenai and his associates, officials of the Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius. 7 They sent him a report, written as follows: “To King Darius, all peace. 8 […]
