The Israelites who married pagan women are told that they must divorce them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The returned exiles who listened to Ezra teach God’s Word are described as “trembling” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Before setting out for Jerusalem, Ezra makes camp for three days by the river (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Six times in the next two chapters, Ezra describes “the good hand of his God” upon him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The prophets Haggai & Zechariah encourage the Israelites as they work to complete their stone and timber Temple (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Two Persian officials pen a letter to King Darius to determine if the Jews have permission to rebuild their Temple (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Ezra lists the many strategies Israel’s enemies used to discourage them from building the Temple (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Some of the old men who had seen the splendor of the first Temple wept aloud with disappointment at the simplicity of the second Temple (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

42,360 exiles march 900 miles over a period of four months to return to Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God moves both King Cyrus of Persia and the Israelites in exile to build a second Temple in Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)