Answers – To Difficult Questions (Ezra)

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Ezra 1:8—Who is Sheshbazzar?

Ezra 2 – Why are these lists different from the lists in Neh. 7?

Ezra 2 – Why are the statistics in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 different?

Ezra 2:1ff—Why are many of the numbers in Ezra’s list of those who returned to Jerusalem different from those in Nehemiah 7?

Ezra 3:3 – Why are the Jews “afraid” if Cyrus has given them the land?

Ezra 3:10—How could the rebuilding have begun during the reign of Cyrus when Ezra 4:24 says it was in the reign of Darius I?

Ezra 3:12-13 – Why are the older men weeping, while the younger are joyful?

Ezra 4:2 – Why does Zerubbabel turn down this offer from the non-Jewish men in Israel?

Ezra 4:23—How could foreign influence have caused the work to cease when Haggai 1:2 blames it on the indifference of the leaders?

Ezra 7:12-26 – Why would a Pagan king desire to give so much to Ezra and the Hebrews?

Ezra 7:27 – Why does this letter switch to the first person?

Ezra 10:3 – Doesn’t it seem cruel that these Pagan wives and children would be ‘put away’ by these men?

Ezra 10:10–44—Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives, but Paul said not to do so?