Bible Cross References
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Psalm 2:1
Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?
Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against His Christ;
Nahum 1:11
Out of you shall proceed a device against the Lord, counseling evil things hostile [to Him].
Acts 24:1-27
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Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain attorney named Tertullus, who made known to the governor the charges against Paul.
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And when he had been called, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying: "Attaining much peace by you and successes coming about for this nation by your foresight,
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both in everything and everywhere we accept [it], most excellent Felix, with all thanksgiving.
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But that I not weary you any longer, I beseech you to hear us briefly in your graciousness.
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For [we] have found this man [to] be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,
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who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we also arrested,
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from whom you will be able, having judged [him] yourself, to learn about all these things of which we are accusing him."
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And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.
10
But Paul answered, the governor had nodded for him to speak: "Knowing that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, the more cheerfully I defend the things concerning myself,
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because you being able to know that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.
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And they did not find me with anyone in the temple disputing, or inciting a crowd to rise up, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.
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Nor are they able to prove [against] me the things about which they are now accusing me.
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But I confess this to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing in all things which are written throughout the Law and in the Prophets,
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having hope in God, which even they themselves are waiting for, that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
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And in this I myself am engaging, having a conscience blameless toward God and men through everything.
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And after many years I arrived to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
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among whom some Jews from Asia found me, having been purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with turmoil,
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who ought to be present before you and to make accusation if anything they might have against me.
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Or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me, when I stood before the council,
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unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.'"
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And when he heard these things, Felix adjourned them, knowing more accurately the things concerning the Way, and said, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."
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And ordering the centurion to keep watch over Paul and to let him have some liberty, and not to forbid [any] of his own to serve or to come to him.
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Now after some days, when Felix arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
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And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment which is going to be, Felix became afraid and answered, "Go away for now; but when I have opportunity I will summon you."
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Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore sending for him more often, he was conversing with him.
27
But after two years had passed, Felix received Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desiring to grant favors to the Jews, left Paul in prison.
Darius
Ezra 4:24
Thus the work of the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was at a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.
Ezra 5:5-17
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But the eyes of God were upon the captivity of Judah, and they did not cause them to cease till the decree was brought to Darius; and then was sent by the tax collector concerning this.
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[This is] the copy of a letter which Tattenai, the governor of the part on this side the river, and Shethar-Boznai, and their fellow servants the Apharsachaeans, who were on this side of the river, sent to King Darius.
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They sent an account to him, and thus it was written in it: All peace to King Darius.
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Be it known to the king, that we went into the land of Judea, to the house of the great God; and it is building with choice stones, and they are laying timbers in the walls, and that work is prospering, and goes on favorably in their hands.
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Then we asked those elders, and thus we said to them, Who gave you the order to build this house, and to [provide] this preparation?
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And we asked them their names, [in order] to declare [them] to you, so as to write to you the names of their leading men.
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And they answered us thus, saying, We [are] the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we [are] building the house which had been built many years before this, and a great king of Israel built it, and established it for them.
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But after that our fathers provoked the God of heaven, [and] He gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away captive to Babylon.
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And in the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be built.
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And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar brought out from the house that was in Jerusalem, and carried them into the temple of the king, those King Cyrus brought out from the temple of the king, and gave to Sheshbazzar the treasurer, who was over the treasury,
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and said to him, Take all the vessels, and go, put them in the house that is in Jerusalem in their place.
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Then that Sheshbazzar came, and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that time even until now it has been building, and has not been finished.
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And now, if it [seems] good to the king, let a search be made in the treasure house of the king at Babylon, that you may know whether [it is so], that a decree was made by King Cyrus to build that house of God that was in Jerusalem, and let the king send to us when he has learned concerning this [matter].
Ezra 6:1-18
1
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.
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And there was found in the city, in the palace, a volume, and this was the record written in it:
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In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the holy house of God that was in Jerusalem, [saying], Let the house be built, and the place where they offer the sacrifices (Also he appointed its elevation, in height sixty cubits; its breadth was of sixty cubits).
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And [let there be] three strong layers of stone, and one layer of timber; and the expense shall be paid out of the house of the king.
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And the silver and the gold vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar carried off from the house that was in Jerusalem, and carried to Babylon, let them also be given, and be carried to the temple that is in Jerusalem, and put in the place where they were set in the house of God.
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Now, you rulers beyond the river, Shethar-Boznai, and their fellow servants the Apharsachaeans, who [are] on the other side of the river, give [these things], keeping far from that place.
7
Now let alone the work of the house of God; let the rulers of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of God on its place.
8
Also a decree has been made by me, if haply you may do somewhat in concert with the elders of the Jews for the building of that house of God: to wit, out of the king's property, [even] the tributes beyond the river, let there be money to defray the expenses carefully granted to those men, so that they be not hindered.
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And whatever need [there may be], you shall give both the young of bulls and rams, and lambs for whole burnt offerings to the God of heaven, [and] wheat, salt, wine, and oil- let it be given them according to the word of the priests that are in Jerusalem, day by day whatsoever they shall ask;
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that they may offer sacrifices of sweet aroma to the God of heaven, and that they may pray for the life of the king and his sons.
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And a decree has been made by me, that every man who shall alter this word, timber shall be pulled down from his house, and let him be lifted up and slain upon it, and his house shall be confiscated.
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And may the God whose name dwells there, overthrow every king and people who shall stretch out his hand to alter or destroy the house of God which is in Jerusalem. I, Darius have made a decree; let it be diligently [attended to].
13
Then Tattenai the governor on this side beyond the river, Shethar-Boznai, and his fellow servants, according to that which King Darius sent, so they did diligently.
14
And the elders of the Jews and the Levites built, at the prophecy of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built up, and finished [it], by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians.
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And they finished this house by the third day of the month [of] Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
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And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house of God with gladness.
17
And they offered for the dedication of the house of God a hundred calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, twelve kids of the goats for a sin offering for all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
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And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their separate orders, for the services of God in Jerusalem, according to the writing of the Book of Moses