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Ezra

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A Topical Outline

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The Book of Ezra

CHAPTERS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Introduction

OUTLINE

1 The people return to Jerusalem (with lots of stuff)
2 A list of people returning from Babylon
3 An altar is built and work on the temple begins
4 Israel's enemies offer to help build the temple
A letter to King Artaxerxes
The king's response
5 A letter to King Darius
6 Darius finds Cyrus's order
The decree of King Darius
The Jews finish building God's house
7 Ezra's genealogy
Ezra comes to Jerusalem
Artaxerxes's letter to Ezra
8 A list of families returning to Jerusalem
Ezra finds some Levites
Gold and siver are weighed and animals are sacrificed
9 Ezra plucks out his hair and sits down astonished
10 Ezra forces the men to abandon their strange wives and children
A list of men who had taken strange wives