Category: Ezra
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Day 260: The Other Elam: A Song (Ezra 2:7, 31)
(with apologies to Billy Joel) “The sons of Elam, 1,254.”Ezra 2:7 ESV “The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.”Ezra 2:31 ESV Through the Bible: Ezra 1-3 Have you ever been “the other” in a group of people? James is a pretty common name, so I’m in lots of crowds with other Jameses. In fact, when…
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Day 260: Planted in Babylon (Ezra 3:8)
“Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity.…