Ezr 5:2, Isa 55:10-11, Hag 1:14, Col 1:6, 1Th 1:5-6, 2:13-14 | ESV | STEP | Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem , and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

2 ^aThen Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and ^bJeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were ^cwith them, supporting them.

Isaiah 55:10-11

10 ^d“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
^egiving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but ^fit shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Haggai 1:14

14 And ^gthe Lord stirred up the spirit of ^hZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of ⁱJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all ^jthe remnant of the people. And they came and ^kworked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,

Colossians 1:6

6 which has come to you, as indeed ^lin the whole world it is ^mbearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you ⁿheard it and understood ^othe grace of God in truth,

1 Thessalonians 1:5-6

5 because ^pour gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and ^qin the Holy Spirit and with full ^rconviction. You know ^swhat kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. 6 And ^tyou became imitators of us ^uand of the Lord, for ^vyou received the word in much affliction, ^wwith the ^xjoy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

13 And ^ywe also thank God constantly ^{▼▼Or without ceasing} for this, that when you received ^aathe word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it ^abnot as the word of men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women} but as what it really is, the word of God, ^adwhich is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, ^aebecame imitators of ^afthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^agyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^ahas they did from the Jews, ^{▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time}