Quotes about Return
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
— Ezra 8:1
And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
— Ezra 9:10
And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.
— Ezra 10:7
but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
— Nehemiah 1:9
Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
— Nehemiah 2:6
These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
— Nehemiah 7:6
The whole assembly who had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.
— Nehemiah 8:17
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
— Nehemiah 9:26
While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
— Nehemiah 13:6
to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.
— Nehemiah 13:7
but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
— Nehemiah 13:21
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.
— Esther 6:12