UMphristi U-Ezra Wafundisa Abantu UMthetho KaNkulunkulu | Izifundo ZeBhayibhili ZabantwanaBALA KU Acholi Afrikaans Albanian American Sign Language Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) Basque Bassa (Cameroon) Bicol Bislama Boulou Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Mandarin (Simplified) Chinese Mandarin (Traditional) Chitonga Chitonga (Malawi) Chitonga (Zimbabwe) Chitumbuka Chiyao Chol Cibemba Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Ewe Fijian Finnish Fon French Ga Galician Garifuna Georgian German German Sign Language Greek Guarani Gun Haitian Creole Hausa Herero Hiligaynon Hindi Hungarian Iban Ibinda Igbo Iloko Irish Isoko Italian Kabiye Kabuverdianu Kannada Kazakh Kekchi Kikaonde Kikongo Kikuyu Kinyarwanda Kirghiz Kirundi Kisonge Kongo Korean Kwangali Kwanyama Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Low German Luganda Luo Macua Malagasy Malay Malayalam Marathi Maya Mixe Moore Nahuatl (Huasteca) Nahuatl (Northern Puebla) Ndebele Ndebele (Zimbabwe) Ngabere Nigerian Pidgin Norwegian Nyungwe Nzema Ossetian Otetela Pangasinan Pidgin (Cameroon) Polish Ponapean Portuguese Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi Quechua (Ancash) Quechua (Cuzco) Quichua (Chimborazo) Quichua (Imbabura) Romanian Sena Sepedi Serbian Serbian (Roman) Sesotho (South Africa) Setswana Seychelles Creole Shona Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Spanish Sranantongo Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tahitian Tamil Tandroy Tarascan Telugu Thai Tojolabal Totonac Tsonga Turkish Twi Tzotzil Ukrainian Uruund Valencian Venda Vezo Vietnamese Waray-Waray Wayuunaiki Xhosa Yoruba Zapotec (Lachiguiri) ZuluKwasekuleminyaka engaba ngu-70 ama-Israyeli ebuyele eJerusalema, kodwa amanye ayelokhu ehlala ezindaweni ezitshiyeneyo ngaphansi koMbuso wePhesiya. Omunye wama-Israyeli ayehlala ezindaweni lezo kwakuthiwa ngu-Ezra. Wayefundisa abantu uMthetho kaJehova. U-Ezra wayefuna ukuyancedisa abantu eJerusalema ngoba wayezwile ukuthi babengasawulandeli uMthetho. Inkosi yePhesiya okuthiwa ngu-Athakisekisi yathi kuye: ‘UNkulunkulu ukuphe inhlakanipho ukuze ufundise abantu uMthetho wakhe. Thatha loba ngubani ofunayo uhambe laye.’ U-Ezra wahlangana labo bonke ababefuna ukubuyela eJerusalema. Bacela uJehova ukuthi abavikele ohambeni lwabo, basebehamba.Bafika eJerusalema ngemva kwezinyanga ezine. Izikhulu zathi ku-Ezra: ‘Ama-Israyeli awasamlaleli uJehova njalo asetshade labafazi abakhonza izithombe.’ U-Ezra wenzani? Waguqa phambi kwabantu bonke, wakhuleka wathi: ‘Jehova usenzele izinto ezinengi, kodwa sonile.’ Abantu bantshintsha indlela zabo kodwa babelokhu besenza ezinye izinto ezingaqondanga. U-Ezra wakhetha abadala labahluleli ukuthi bancedise abantu. Ngenyanga ezintathu ezalandelayo, labo ababengamkhonzi uJehova baxotshwa.Ngeminyaka engu-12 eyalandelayo, imiduli yeJerusalema yakhiwa kutsha. U-Ezra wabiza abantu ukuze ababalele uMthetho kaNkulunkulu. Ngesikhathi u-Ezra evula ibhuku, abantu bonke basukuma. Wadumisa uJehova futhi labo baphakamisa izandla bevumelana laye. U-Ezra wasebala uMthetho wawuchasisa futhi labantu balalelisisa. Bakhala futhi bavuma ukuthi babewonele uJehova. Ngelanga elalandelayo, u-Ezra wababalela okunye okwakusemthethweni. Bezwa ukuthi kwakumele benze uMkhosi weZihonqo. Bahle baqalisa ukulungiselela ukwenza umkhosi lowo.Wonke amalanga ayisikhombisa omkhosi lowo, bathokoza futhi babonga uJehova ngokuthi wayebanike ukudla okunengi. Umkhosi onje wawucine ukwenziwa uJoshuwa esaphila. Umkhosi usuphelile, abantu babuthana bakhuleka bathi: ‘Jehova wasikhulula ebugqilini, wasipha ukudla enkangala, futhi wasipha lendawo le enhle. Kodwa besilokhu singakulaleli. Wathuma abaphrofethi ukuthi basixwayise kodwa kasilalelanga. Lanxa kunjalo ubusibekezelela futhi usigcinile isithembiso sakho ku-Abhrahama. Khathesi sithembisa ukuthi sizakulalela.’ Babhala phansi isithembiso sabo, kwathi izikhulu, amaLevi labaphristi bafaka uphawu olutshengisa ukuthi bayavumelana lalokho.“Ababusisiweyo yilabo abalizwayo ilizwi likaNkulunkulu balilalele.”—ULukha 11:28Imibuzo: U-Ezra wawafundisani ama-Israyeli ayeseJerusalema? Abantu bathembisani?U-Ezra 7:1-28; 8:21-23, 31, 32; 9:1–10:19; UNehemiya 8:1-18; 9:1-38Isethulo Sebhuku Lika-EzraUJehova ugcina isithembiso sakhe sokukhulula abantu bakhe ekuthunjweni eBhabhiloni ukuze abuyisele ukukhonza kweqiniso eJerusalema.
