EZRA

NAME _______________________
SCORE _________
I WILL DO MY BEST TO READ THE BOOK OF EZRA DURING THE FOLLOWING MONTH.

INTRODUCTION:  The Jews returning back to the land of Israel from Babylonian captivity is covered in the two books of Ezra and Nehemiah.   The scriptures record that there were at least three efforts to return to the land of Israel by those in captivity.  The first occurred in 536 B.C. under Zerubabbel.  The second under Ezra in 457 B.C..  The third was under Nehemiah around 444 B.C.   May our faith grow from a study of the Word of God.

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CHAPTER ONE
1. WHO WAS THE KING OF PERSIA?  __________  
2. WHAT PROPHET DECLARED THE JEWS WOULD RETURN?  __________________  
3. BASED ON JEREMIAH 25:12, HOW LONG WAS THE CAPTIVITY TO LAST?  ______  YEARS
4. WHAT DID GOD STIR UP?  ___________   ____  __________ 
5. GOD CHARGED THIS KING TO BUILD HIM, A WHAT?  __________
6. WHERE?  ________________ 
7. THE MAN WHO WOULD GO BACK TO BUILD THIS THING WAS TO BE GIVEN WHAT FOUR THINGS?
   1. _________
   2. _________
   3. ___________
   4. ___________
8. IN ADDITION TO THESE THINGS HE WAS TO RECEIVE WHAT FROM THE PEOPLE?  ______________   ________________ 
9. WHAT THREE GROUPS OR INDIVIDUALS DID GOD STIR UP THEIR HEARTS TO ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK?
   1. ____________   ____   _____   _______________
   2. ___________
   3. _____________
10. WHAT EXPRESSION SHOWS THE PEOPLE WERE BEHIND THIS EFFORT?   ___________________    __________    ___________  
11. WHICH KING HAD TAKEN THE VESSELS OUT OF JERUSALEM?  _________________________ 
12. WHERE HAD THIS KING PLACED THESE VESSELS WHICH HE TOOK OUT OF JERUSALEM?  ___________   ____   _____    ________ 
13. WHO WAS THE TREASURER OF PERSIA?  ________________  
14. WHO WAS THE PRINCE OF JUDAH?  __________________
15. HOW MANY CHARGERS (CHEST) OF GOLD? ______



CHAPTER TWO
16. BASED ON THIS CHAPTER WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THIS GROUP? (SEE INTRODUCTION)  ___________________ 
17. WHICH GROUP NUMBERED 642?  CHILDREN OF _________ 
18. WHICH GROUP NUMBERED 454? ________  
19. WHICH GROUP NUMBERED 3630?  ____________ 
20. THE SINGERS WERE CHILDREN OF WHO?  __________ 
21. WHAT FIVE PLACES ARE THEY SAID TO HAVE COME FROM IN RETURNING TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL?
    1. _______________
    2. ______________
    3. ___________
    4. ____________
    5. ________________
22. WHAT DID THIS GROUP SEEK IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THEIR BLOOD LINE?  ______________ 
23. SINCE IT COULD NOT BE FOUND THEY WERE PUT FROM WHAT?  _________________ 
24. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE TWO STONES WHICH BEFORE THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WERE USED BY THE HIGH PRIEST TO GET ANSWERS?  ________  AND  __________________ 
25. THOSE WHO GAVE INTO THE TREASURE TO CARRY THIS WORK OUT, GAVE AFTER THEIR WHAT?  ____________ 



CHAPTER THREE
26. WHAT MONTH DO THESE EVENTS OCCUR IN?  ______________ 
27. WHO LEAD THE PRIESTS? ______________ 
28. WHAT DID THEY BUILD?  ___________ 
29. WHAT KIND OF OFFERINGS DID THEY MAKE? ____________ 
30. THEY SET THIS OBJECT UPON ITS WHAT? __________ 
31. THEY WERE AFRAID OF WHO?  ______________   ____   _________  __________________  
32. WHAT FEAST DID THEY KEEP?  ________________
33. IN ALL THE FEASTS WHICH THEY KEPT, HOW DID THE PEOPLE OFFER UNTO GOD?  _________________ 
34. WHAT HAD NOT YET BEEN LAID?  _________________ 
35. WHERE DID THE CEDAR TREES FOR BUILDING COME FROM? __________________ 
36. WHAT NATION BROUGHT THE TREES TO THE SEA OF JOPPA?  ____________ 
37. THIS WAS PAID FOR BECAUSE THE KING OF PERSIA HAD GIVEN A  WHAT?  _____________ 
38. FROM AMONG THE LEVITES, WHAT WAS THE MINIMUM AGE OF THOSE TO SERVE? _____  YEARS
39. WHEN THE FOUNDATION WAS LAID THE PRIESTS WERE SET IN WHAT? _______________ 
40. WHAT TWO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARE NOTED HERE?  _______________  AND  _____________  
41. THE PEOPLE SANG TOGETHER BY WHAT?  ____________ 
42. GOD IS SAID TO BE WHAT?  _________ 
43. THEY SHOUTED FOR JOY BECAUSE WHAT HAD BEEN LAID?  _________________
44. THE OLDER MEN WHO HAD SEEN THE FIRST TEMPLE, DID WHAT WHEN THEY SAW THIS THING (#43) LAID? _________ 



CHAPTER FOUR
45. THOSE WHO STOOD AGAINST THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE ARE CALLED WHAT?  _________________ 
46. THESE ENEMIES ASK WHAT OF ZERUBBABEL?  "_____   ____   _________   ______   _______ 
47. WHAT KING HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THESE FOREIGNERS (ENEMIES) INTO JERUSALEM?  __________________
48. DID ZERUBBABEL ACCEPT THEIR OFFER?  _______
49. WHAT EXPRESSION SHOWS THAT THE ENEMIES DISCOURAGED THE WORK OF THOSE WHO WERE TRYING TO BUILD?  __________________   _____   _________  
50. WHO DID THEY HIRE TO FRUSTRATE THE PURPOSE OF THOSE TRYING TO BUILD?  ___________________  
51. WHO IS THE NEXT KING OF PERSIA CITED AFTER THE KING WHO FIRST OF ALL SIGN THE AGREEMENT TO ALLOW THE JEWS TO GO BACK AND BUILD JERUSALEM? ___________ 
52. KING ARTAXERXES RECEIVED LETTERS FROM WHAT THREE MEN?
    1. _________________
    2. _________________
    3. ________________
53. IN WHAT LANGUAGE WAS THE LETTER?  _____________ 
54. WHO WAS THE CHANCELLOR WHO WROTE A LETTER TO THE KING AGAINST THOSE IN JERUSALEM? ______________ 
55. IN THEIR EFFORTS TO DESTROY THE WORK WHAT TWO WORDS DID THEY USE TO DESCRIBE JERUSALEM?  _________________  AND  _______
56. THE ENEMIES ARGUED THAT IF JERUSALEM WAS REBUILT THEN THOSE IN JERUSALEM WOULD NOT PAY WHAT?  _______,  _____________, AND _____________ 
57. THEY ACCUSED THE JEWS IN JERUSALEM OF MOVING WHAT?  _________________ 
58. THE KING REPLIED AND CAUSED THE WORK IN JERUSALEM TO WHAT?  ___________ 



CHAPTER FIVE
59. WHAT TWO PROPHETS DOES GOD NOW RAISE UP? ___________  AND  ________________ 
60. WITH THE HELP OF THESE TWO PROPHETS THE PEOPLE STARTED TO DO WHAT AGAIN?  __________   _____   ___________   ____   ________ 
61. WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR WHO CAME AND ASKED THE PEOPLE ABOUT THIS EFFORT?  _____________ 
62. GOD'S EYE WAS UPON THE _____________  ____   ____   ______  
63. THOSE WHO WERE RIGHTEOUS MADE AN APPEAL TO WHAT KING AT THIS TIME?  ____________ 
64. THEY REQUESTED THAT HE (THE KING) GO LOOK BACK IN THE RECORDS AND FIND OUT WHO GAVE THE DECREE TO BUILD THIS HOUSE. WHO HAD GIVEN THE DECREE TO BEGIN WITH?  _____________ 



CHAPTER SIX
65. WHERE DID THEY FIND THE RECORD OF THIS DECREE?  ____________________ 
66. THE DECREE STATED THAT THE EXPENSES FOR BUILDING THE TEMPLE AGAIN CAME OUT OF WHAT?  __________   ___________ 
67. THE APPEAL OF THOSE WHO WANTED TO BUILD IN JERUSALEM WAS FOR THE KING TO LET THE WORK OF GOD  _________
68. THE KING ORDERED THAT PROVISIONS BE GIVEN TO THOSE BUILDING IN JERUSALEM.  WHAT ANIMALS WERE TO BE GIVEN TO THEM FOR SACRIFICES?  _______________,  _________, __________ 
69. WHEN THESE SACRIFICES WERE MADE THE REQUEST WAS MADE THAT PRAYERS BE MADE FOR WHOM? ___________  AND HIS ________ 
70. IF ANYONE ALTERED THIS DECREE, THEY WERE TO BE ______________ 
71. THE HOUSE WAS FINISHED ON THE _________ DAY OF THE MONTH OF ________ 
72. THE PEOPLE OF THE CAPTIVITY KEPT THE DEDICATION OF THE HOUSE OF GOD WITH WHAT?  ________ 
73. HOW MANY LAMBS WERE OFFERED?  _______  ____________ 
74. ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE MONTH WHAT DID THEY KEEP?  __________________ 



CHAPTER SEVEN
75. WHAT KIND OF SCRIBE WAS EZRA? ___________ 
76. IN WHAT YEAR OF ARTAXERXES DO THESE EVENTS BEGIN TO HAPPEN?  _____________ 
77. EZRA HAD PREPARED HIS HEART TO SEEK WHAT?  _____   ______  ____   ____   ___________ 
78. WHAT WOULD HE TEACH IN ISRAEL?  _____________  AND  ________________ 
79. THE KING GAVE MONEY FOR THEM TO BUY WHAT THREE KIND OF ANIMALS FOR SACRIFICE?
    1. ______________
    2. _______  AND
    3. ________
80. IF THEY NEEDED MORE MONEY IT WAS TO COME FROM THE KING'S _______________   __________ 
81. THOSE WHO WERE WORKING IN THE HOUSE OF GOD DID NOT HAVE TO PAY WHAT?_______,  _______________,  ____________ 
82. WHO WAS EZRA TO SET OVER THE PEOPLE TO HANDLE THEIR PROBLEMS?  _______________ AND  ______________ 
83. WHAT FOUR THINGS WERE CITED AS A  MEANS OF PUNISHMENT TO THOSE WHO DID NOT OBEY GOD OR THE KING?
    1. __________
    2. ________________
    3. _________________   ____   ___________   AND
    4. ___________________
CHAPTER EIGHT
84. WHO HAD DAVID APPOINTED FOR THE SERVICE OF THE LEVITES?  _________________ 
85. A FAST WAS PROCLAIMED BY WHAT RIVER?  ____________ 
86. THE PEOPLE AFFLICTED THEMSELVES IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT SEEK WHAT OF GOD? _________   _______
87. EZRA SELECTED 12 OF CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS.  WHAT TWO OF THE TWELVE ARE NAMED? _________________ AND  _________________ 
88. WHAT DAY OF THE MONTH DID THEY LEAVE THIS RIVER?  ______ 



CHAPTER NINE
89. WHO CAME TO EZRA WITH A PROBLEM?  ____________ 
90. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD NOT ________________  THEMSELVES FROM THOSE OF THE LAND.
91. WHEN EZRA HEARD THAT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAD BEEN MARRYING THOSE OF THE WORLD WHAT TWO THINGS DID HE RENT (TEAR) ________________  AND  ______________  
92. HE PLUCKED OFF (PULLED OUT) WHAT? ________   ____   ____   _______  AND ____   _____   _________ 
93. HE SAT THERE IN THIS CONDITION UNTIL WHAT?  ___________  _______________ 
94. WHAT HAD GROWN UP TO THE HEAVENS?  _____   ______________   
95. EZRA WANTED A LITTLE WHAT IN THEIR BONDAGE?  _________________ 
96. THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS DESCRIBED AS BEING WHAT?  ____________________ 



CHAPTER TEN
97. SHECHANIAH TELLS EZRA THAT THEY HAD SINNED BY TAKING WHAT KIND OF WIVES FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND?  ________________  
98. IN SPITE OF THIS SIN,THERE WAS NOW WHAT?  ________
99. WHAT DID THEY WANT TO MAKE WITH GOD?  ________________ 
100. WHAT ACCORDING TO THIS COVENANT WERE THEY TO DO WITH THE WIVES AND CHILDREN THAT WERE A RESULT OF THE SIN?  ______   __________ 
101. THEY WANTED EZRA TO BE OF ______   _____________  AND _____   ____ 
102. IN THREE DAYS THEY WOULD ALL COME TOGETHER.  IF ANYONE DID NOT SHOW UP WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIS SUBSTANCE?  ___________________ 
103. AT THIS POINT THEY NEEDED TIME TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GREAT TASK.  THE REASON BEING THAT THERE WERE SO MANY IN NUMBER AND BECAUSE IT WAS A TIME OF WHAT?  _________