Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Ezra must have put the future or Israel at risk by making so many put away their pagan wives.

Ezra ch. 2 and Ezra 10:18-44

Oops of the Day 

No! Even though Ezra made 106 Jewish men separate from their pagan wives, the population was 42,360 men.  So they accounted for only .0025 of the Jewish men.

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Around 520 BC, the Samaritans wrote King Artaxerxes, Esther’s son, to force the Jews to stop rebuilding the temple, and Esther’s son made them stop.

Ezra 1:1-4  – Ezra chapters 7-10

Fact of the Day 

No!  That was not Esther’s son.  Ezra was a chronicler and always cited dates for accuracy.

King Cyrus became king of Persia in 559.  He conquered & absorbed Media in 549.  He didnot conquer and absorb Babylon with its JEWS until 539.

King Darius said in his “Behistun Inscription” that he fought 19 others who claimed to be king before he ascended the throne in 522. He did not name the kings, but we can assume one of them was Artaxerxes.

• 559  BC – King Cyrus became King of Persia 
• 539 BC – King Cyrus also became King of Babylon and freed the Jews his 1st year (Ezra 1:1ff)
• 537 BC – The Jews began rebuilding the temple in their 2nd year (Ezra 3:8).
• 522 BC – King Darius became King of Persia after fighting 19 others claiming to be king, among them Artaxerxes I (Ezra 4:4-7).
• 520 BC – Work on the temple stopped until the 2nd year of King Darius (Ezra 4:24).
• 514 BC – The temple was completed the 6th year of King Darius (Ezra 6:15)
• 465 BC – Esther’s Son, Artaxerxes II, son of Xerxes (Aha-xuerus) became King of Persia (Ezra 7:7)
• 458 BC – Ezra arrived in Jerusalem the 7th year of King Artaxerxes II (Ezra 7:7)

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