Peoples Gospel Church

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Nehemiah+001     Nehemiah In the fifth century B C, many Judeans were returning from exile to the southern part of the land of Israel. They faced great difficulties: their capital city and temple had been destroyed, foreigners had moved in, and they were no longer ruled by their own king.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+010     CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. 2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+009     CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+008     CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 15 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+007     CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah … 5 son of Aaron the chief priest— 6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+006     CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 13 Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered. 14 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+005     CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 1 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+004     CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, 2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+003     CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Ezra+002     CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 2 They came with…