Today I read Ezra 5 & 6, in which Zerubbabel and others begin to build God’s temple again and their enemies had to help provide resources to them after king Darius’s search of the old records and reply.

Today I read Ezra 3 & 4, in which the altar and foundation were built for Jerusalem but the enemies frustrated their efforts to finish building.

Today I read Ezra 1 & 2, where king Cyrus of Persia proclaimed God wanted Cyrus to build a house in Jerusalem for God and he had Israelites return to Jerusalem.