Trouvé 683 Résultats pour: Temple Ornaments
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building the Temple of Yahweh, God of Israel, (Ezra 4, 1)
Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of Israelite families replied, 'It is out of the question that you should join us in building a Temple for our God. We shall build for Yahweh, God of Israel, on our own, as King Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.' (Ezra 4, 3)
Work on the Temple of God in Jerusalem then ceased, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius King of Persia. (Ezra 4, 24)
Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak began rebuilding the Temple of God in Jerusalem; with them were the prophets of God, supporting them. (Ezra 5, 2)
It was then that Tattenai governor of Transeuphrates, Shethar-Bozenai and their associates came to them and asked, 'Who gave you the order to rebuild this Temple and complete this structure? (Ezra 5, 3)
'The king should be informed that we went to the province of Judah, to the Temple of the great God, which is being rebuilt with large stones; beams are being embedded in the walls; the work is being carried out energetically and is making good progress. (Ezra 5, 8)
Questioning these elders, we asked them, "Who gave you permission to rebuild this Temple and complete this structure?" (Ezra 5, 9)
'They gave us the following answer, "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth; we are rebuilding the Temple built many years ago, which a great king of Israel had built and completed. (Ezra 5, 11)
But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldaean king of Babylon who destroyed this Temple and deported the people to Babylon. (Ezra 5, 12)
In the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, however, King Cyrus issued an official order that this Temple of God should be rebuilt; (Ezra 5, 13)
furthermore, those gold and silver articles belonging to the Temple of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple of Babylon, King Cyrus in turn removed from the temple of Babylon and handed back to a certain Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed governor. (Ezra 5, 14)
He said to him, 'Take these articles; go and return them to the Temple which is in Jerusalem and let the Temple of God be rebuilt on its original site;' (Ezra 5, 15)
