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.
Patristic commentary has not yet been attached to Ezra. The full corpus of the Fathers remains searchable in the Fathers Library.
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…