Discovery BoxEzra 5:12 
Context5:12 But after our ancestors 1 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 2 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 3
Ezra 7:27
Context7:27 4 Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem!
Ezra 8:25
Context8:25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God – items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed.
Ezra 8:30
Context8:30 Then the priests and the Levites took charge of 5 the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.
Ezra 9:15
Context9:15 O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt 6 no one can really stand before you.”
Ezra 10:2
Context10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, 7 addressed Ezra:
“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying 8 foreign women from the local peoples. 9 Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. 10
1 tn Aram “fathers.”
2 tn Aram “hand” (singular).
3 sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586
4 sn At this point the language of the book reverts from Aramaic (7:12-26) back to Hebrew.
5 tn Heb “received.”
6 tn Heb “this”; the referent (the guilt mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew
8 tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.
9 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
10 tn Heb “upon this.”
