The King that gave the Jewish exiles permission to go back to Jerusalem.
Who is King Cyrus?
The city the Jews returned back to.
What is Jerusalem?
The thing the Jews built first when they got back to Jerusalem.
What is the altar?
The book that comes after Ezra.
What is Nehemiah?
The thing HSM stands for.
What is Highland Student Ministry?
The scribe and leader that a group of people back to Jerusalem the second part of Ezra.
Who is Ezra?
The nation that conquered Judah and took them captive.
What is Babylon?
The items King gave the Jews to take with them to Jerusalem.
The book that comes in the middle of Ezra (about a queen).
What is Esther?
Ryan's favorite college team.
The leader of the Jews in the first part of Ezra that was in the line of Jesus (starts with a Z).
Who is Zerubbabel?
The place of worship the Jews wanted to return and rebuild.
Tearing out beard, hair, ripping clothes
What are the things Ezra did when he heard the Israelites had sinned?
The people that opposed the rebuilding of the temple.
Who are the Samaritans or people who half worshiped God, half worshiped idols?
The date of the HSM Christmas party.
What is December 14th?
The people the Jews told the men to send away because they were foreign.
Who were foreign wives?
The place the rain came and the Jews cried because they had sinned
What is the temple (or temple court)?
The number of years the Jews were in exile.
What is 70?
The tribe or group of people that was to protect all the temple items.
Who are the Levites?
Jack's dilemma at homecoming.
What is having one girl ask you after you've already asked someone else?
The King who allowed Ezra to take a group of exiles back to Jerusalem.
Who is King Artaxerxes?
The nation that conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
What is Assyria?
The year the new temple was finished.
What is 516 BC (will give or take a few years)?
The number of people that made it back to Jerusalem the first time (first part of Ezra).
What is 50,000? (or close)
The name of Braya's baby.
Who is Anthem?