Ezra 4:1

Adversaries Oppose the Rebuilding

1Now when athe adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel,

Ezra 6:16

16And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the bdedication of this house of God with joy.

Ezra 6:19-20

Passover Celebrated

19 cOn the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover. 20 dFor the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. eSo they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.

Ezra 10:7

7And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,

Ezra 10:16

16Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,
Syriac; Hebrew And there were selected Ezra . . .
heads of fathershouses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;

Daniel 2:25

25Then gArioch brought in Daniel before the king hin haste and said thus to him: “I have found iamong the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

Daniel 6:13

13Then they answered and said before the king, jDaniel, who is one kof the exiles lfrom Judah, mpays no attention to you, O king, or nthe injunction you have signed, but makes his petition othree times a day.”

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