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A Renegade Priest
Meanwhile, there was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, a city which belonged to a clan of Judah. He was a Levite, but he resided in Bethlehem even though he was not a Judean.
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His Judean wife gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soko, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
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The King should know that the Judeans who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. Soon they will have completed the walls, and they are now repairing the foundations.
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Then, when a copy of Artaxerxes’ document was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the secretary, and their associates, they immediately went to the Judeans in Jerusalem, and they stopped them with armed force.
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Completion of the Second Temple
Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah grandson of Iddo, prophesied to the Judeans who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
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However, the eye of their God was on the Judean elders, and the officials did not make them stop until the report could go to Darius, and they could respond on the basis of a document concerning this matter.
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Leave the work on that house of God alone. Let the governor of the Judeans and the elders of the Judeans rebuild that house of God on its site.
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Furthermore, a decree is issued from me concerning what you should do together with the elders of these Judeans in order to rebuild that temple of God: The complete cost will be paid to these men from the royal treasury, out of the taxes of the Trans-Euphrates area, so that the builders will not have to stop.
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So the elders of the Judeans continued to build and prosper throughout the prophetic ministry of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah grandson of Iddo. They finished building the temple by the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.
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I said to them, “As much as possible, we have bought back our fellow Judeans who have been sold to the Gentiles, and yet, you sell your countrymen so that they can be resold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.
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Moreover, at my table there were one hundred fifty Judeans and officials, and others who came to us from the nations around us.
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So I accused the Judean nobles and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, by which you are profaning the Sabbath day?
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Also in those days I saw the Judeans who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
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Half of their children spoke the dialect of Ashdod or the language of other peoples and were not able to understand how to speak Judean.
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In this group of young men were the Judeans Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
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Then Ariok immediately brought Daniel before the king. This is what Ariok said to the king: “I have found a man from among the Judean exiles who will make the interpretation known to the king.”
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Daniel Interprets the Writing
Then Daniel was brought before the king. The king said to Daniel, “Are you Daniel, one of the Judean exiles whom my father the king brought from Judah?
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The Visit of the Wise Men
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, when Herod was king, Wise Men from the east came to Jerusalem. They asked,
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They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, because this was written through the prophet:
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But when he heard that Archelaus, Herod’s son, had succeeded his father as ruler in Judea, he was afraid to go there. Since he had been warned in a dream, he went to the region of Galilee.
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John the Baptist Prepares the Way
In those days, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying,
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Then Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him.
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Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
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Marriage and Divorce
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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then those who are in Judea should flee to the mountains.