EZRA OUTLINE
A Ralph Johnson
Date: around 450 BC
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OUTLINE10ch(2) (brief) |
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I. FIRST MIGRATION RETURN FROM BABYLON TO PALESTINE (ch. 1—6) |
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1: Decree |
A. Return Under Zerubbabel The Governor And Joshua The High Priest (chap. 1—2) (first year) |
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1. Authority granted to return (chap. 1) |
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a. Cyrus of Persia’s decree to Rebuild the temple. (1:1-4), 536 BC |
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b. Preparation for return.(1:5-11). |
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2: Return #1 |
2. Those who returned. (chap. 2) |
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a. Leaders (2:1-2) |
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c. Priests (2:36-39) |
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d. Levites (2:40-60) |
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e. Priests without family records (2:61-63) |
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f. Totals and Substance (2:64-70) |
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B. Rebuilding The Temple (chap. 3—6) |
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3: Build |
1. Altar and foundation (chap. 3) |
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a. Altar (3:1-7) |
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b. Foundation (3:8-13) |
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4: Stop |
2. Work stopped (chap. 4) |
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a. Adversaries (4:1-5) |
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(Aramaic text begins) |
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b. Letters of opposition (4:6-16) (In Aramaic) |
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Letter to Artaxerxes (4:11-16) (Pseudo-Smerdis?) |
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c. Stop work decree (4:17-22), 536 B.C. (16 years) |
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5: Resumed |
3. Work resumed, by reign of Darius (5:1—6:12) |
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a. Prophets, Haggai & Zechariah encourage work (5:1) |
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b. Work resumed about 520 B.C. (5:2) after 16 years |
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c. Work questioned by Tettenai (5:3-5) |
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d. Tettenai’s letter to Darius (5:6-17) |
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6: Complete |
e. Darius confirms and reinforces Cyrus’s decree (1-12) |
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(End of Aramaic text) |
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4. Work completed in 5 years. (6:15-18) |
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5. Passover kept, 515 A.D. (6:19-22)
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(57 year break) (Book of Esther written here)
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II. SECOND MIGRATION RETURN TO PALESTINE |
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(Under Ezra, priest and scribe, --458 B.C. after about 57 years) |
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7: Return #2 |
A. Ezra’s credentials (7:1-10). |
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B. Artaxerxes’ Decree (7:11—26) (458 B.C.) (7:12-26 Aramaic text) |
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(Longimanus, son of the Ahesuerus of Esther) |
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To furnish and finance the temple (7:11-26)
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C. Ezra’s Thanksgiving (7:27-28) |
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8: Companions |
D. Accounting of people and treasures returned (chap. 8) |
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1. Companions who went up with Ezra (8:1-14) |
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2. Levites sent for (8:15-20) |
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3. Fast (8:21-23) |
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4. Treasure entrusted to 12 priests (8:24-30) |
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5. Journey and arrival at Jerusalem (8:31-32) |
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6. Treasure in temple (8:33-35) |
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7. Decree delivered to governors (8:36 )
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9: Intermarriage |
E. Problem with marriages to heathens (chap. 9—10) |
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1. Problem discovered (9:1-4) |
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2. Prayer and confession of Ezra (9:5-15) |
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10: Separation |
3. Marriages with other religions ended. (chap. 10)
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