Ezra
Old Testament · 10 chapters · 280 verses
Every chapter of Ezra is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 280 verses in 10 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
1 Church Father comments on Ezra in this edition: Saint Maximus the Confessor. Their commentary appears on the chapter it explains.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- Ezra 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the…
- Ezra 2 And these are the people of the land that went up, of the number of prisoners who were removed, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away to…
- Ezra 3 And the seventh month came on, and the children of Israel were in their cities, and the people assembled as one man at Jerusalem.
- Ezra 4 And they that afflicted Juda and Benjamin heard, that the children of the captivity were building a house to the Lord God of Israel.
- Ezra 5 And Aggaeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied a prophesy to the Jews in Juda and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel,…
- Ezra 6 Then Darius the king made a decree, and caused a search to be made in the record-offices, where the treasure is stored in Babylon.
- Ezra 7 Now after these things, in the reign of Arthasastha king of the Persians, came up Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Chelcias,
- Ezra 8 And these are the heads of their families, the leaders that went up with me in the reign of Arthasastha the king of Babylon.
- Ezra 9 And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated…
- Ezra 10 So when Esdras had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and praying before the house of God, a very great assembly of Israel came together to…