Apocrypha / deuterocanonical book
1 Esdras
9 chapters
1 Esdras is part of the Apocrypha: printed in the 1611 King James Bible, read as scripture in Catholic and Orthodox traditions, and placed between the Testaments in Protestant Bibles that include it. The text here is the public-domain King James Apocrypha.
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And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the...
In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord might be accomplished, that he had promised b...
Now when Darius reigned, he made a great feast unto all his subjects, and unto all his household, and unto all the princ...
Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,
After this were the principal men of the families chosen according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons a...
Now in the second year of the reign of Darius Aggeus and Zacharias the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied unto the Je...
Then Sisinnes the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions following the commandments...
And after these things, when Artexerxes the king of the Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Ezer...
Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib,