 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let...  The Levitical Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah - Page 13by Kyung-Jin Min - 2004 - 192 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Richard F. Lovelace - Religion - 1979 - 460 pages
...'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah....among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.' " (2 Chron. 36:22-23) Nothing could more effectively emphasize the primacy... | |
 | J. G. MacConville - Religion - 1984 - 284 pages
...'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah....among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.'" The axe falls (v. 17)! The final devastation of Judah by Babylon is one... | |
 | John F. A. Sawyer - Religion - 1986 - 250 pages
..."The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah....among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.'" (2 Chron. 36:22-23) A clay cylinder with the actual words of Cyrus' proclamation... | |
 | Alan F. Segal - Religion - 1986 - 230 pages
...'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the... | |
 | John J. Pilch - Religion - 1996 - 188 pages
...proclaimed: "The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah....among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him! Let him go up" Jesus' edict has three parts: a command (v. 16: go to the mountain), a... | |
 | Stephen L. Sass - History - 1998 - 332 pages
..."The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and 111 rebuild the house of... | |
 | William M. Schniedewind - Religion - 1999 - 240 pages
...Persia: YHWH, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may YHWH his God be -with him! Let him go up! — 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 ; Ezra 1 :2-4 The edict of Cyrus... | |
 | Bob Becking, Marjo Christina Annette Korpel - Bible - 1999 - 328 pages
...spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he ... declared: '... whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him! Let him go up'." (b) The second direction from which the book's ending should be analysed... | |
 | Yvonne Chireau, Nathaniel Deutsch - Social Science - 1999 - 256 pages
...given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up!" (2 Chron. 36:23). "Whoever" indeed: in the last sentence of history in... | |
 | Russell Penney - Religion - 380 pages
...earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up!" (2 Chronicles 36:23) The royal edict of Cyrus included a specific... | |
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