Susa/Jerusalem

「And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.」

「son of Amariah son of Azariah son of Meraioth」

「May he give you all a heart to worship him and to do his will with a strong heart and a willing spirit.」

「For thinking that in their secret sins they were unobserved behind a dark curtain of forgetfulness, they were scattered, terribly alarmed, and appalled by specters.」

「And Holofer′nes was greatly pleased with her, and drank a great quantity of wine, much more than he had ever drunk in any one day since he was born.」

「Why do you beat us? If they are dead, go with them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!”」

「King Cyrus released the vessels of GOD’s house that Nebuchadnezzar had taken away from Jerusalem and had put in the house of his god.」

「Thereupon we directed this question to these elders, ‘Who issued orders to you to rebuild this house and to complete its furnishings?’」

「Alexander the Great After Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came from the land of Kittim, had defeated Dari′us, king of the Persians and the Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king of Greece.)」

「Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.」

「Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.」

「For they are Your servants and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and Your mighty hand.」

「This is the inventory: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 knives,」

「which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:」

「For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving there, says Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.」

「You took note of our ancestors’ affliction in Egypt, and heard their cry at the Sea of Reeds.」

「Already in time past a letter was sent to Oni′as the high priest from Ari′us, who was king among you, stating that you are our brethren, as the appended copy shows.」

「He lay there for many days, because deep grief continually gripped him, and he concluded that he was dying.」

「for money-making and work and success with his hands he asks strength of a thing whose hands have no strength.」

「He established with them an eternal covenant, and showed them his judgments.」

「Will you not leave the fruit of your labors to another, and what you acquired by toil to be divided by lot?」

「Kallai—of the Sallai clan; Eber—of the Amok clan;」

「For slaves we are, though even in our bondage God has not forsaken us, but has disposed the king of Persia favorably toward us, to furnish us with sustenance and to raise again the House of our God, repairing its ruins and giving us a hold in Judah and Jerusalem.」

「I, my kindred, and my servants also have claims of money and grain against them; let us now abandon those claims!」