by Susan Barnes | 26 Dec 2014 | Devotions OT
Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart to bring honor to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way and who has extended his good favor to me before the king and his advisers and all the king’s powerful officials....
by Susan Barnes | 19 Dec 2014 | Devotions OT
In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide with three courses of...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Dec 2014 | Devotions OT
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, they came to Zerubbabel …and said, “Let us help you build…” Ezra 4:1 Ezra immediately identifies these people as “enemies” yet it...
