Lexicon :: Strong's H7223 - ri'šôn

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of the LORD’s temple. They consecrated the LORD’s temple for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

Josiah observed the LORD’s Passover and slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple, but many others shouted joyfully.

The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month since the gracious hand of his God was on him.

We set out from the Ahava River on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. We were strengthened by our God,[fn] and he kept us from the grasp of the enemy and from ambush along the way.

“Indeed, the Israelite men[fn] have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders[fn] and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ”

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

The governors who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them food and wine as well as a pound[fn] of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but because of the fear of God, I didn’t do this.

Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. I found the genealogical record of those who came back first, and I found the following written in it:

Ezra[fn] read out of the book of the law of God every day, from the first day to the last. The Israelites celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

The most trusted ones[fn] were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan. They were the seven officials of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and occupied the highest positions in the kingdom.

In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, the pur ​— ​that is, the lot ​— ​was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.

For ask the previous generation,

and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered,

Were you the first human ever born,

or were you brought forth before the hills?

Do not hold past iniquities[fn] against us;

let your compassion come to us quickly,

for we have become very weak.

Lord, where are the former acts of your faithful love

that you swore to David in your faithfulness?

The first to state his case seems right

until another comes and cross-examines him.

An inheritance gained prematurely

will not be blessed ultimately.

There is no remembrance of those who[fn] came before;

and of those who will come after

there will also be no remembrance

by those who follow them.

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these? ”

since it is not wise of you to ask this.

“I will restore your judges to what they were at first,

and your advisers to what they were at the start.

Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,

a Faithful Town.”

Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future he will bring honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.

“Who has performed and done this,

calling the generations from the beginning?

I am the LORD, the first

and with the last ​— ​I am he.”

“The past events have indeed happened.

Now I declare new events;

I announce them to you before they occur.”

All the nations are gathered together,

and the peoples are assembled.

Who among them can declare this,

and tell us the former things?

Let them present their witnesses

to vindicate themselves,

so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”

This is what the LORD, the King of Israel and its Redeemer, the LORD of Armies, says:

I am the first and I am the last.

There is no God but me.

“Remember what happened long ago,

for I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and no one is like me.

“I declared the past events long ago;

they came out of my mouth; I proclaimed them.

Suddenly I acted, and they occurred.

For this is what the Lord GOD says:

“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,

then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[fn]

Yes, the coasts and islands will wait for me

with the ships of Tarshish in the lead,

to bring your children from far away,

their silver and gold with them,

for the honor of the LORD your God,

the Holy One of Israel,

who has glorified you.

They will rebuild the ancient ruins;

they will restore the former devastations;

they will renew the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

“for your iniquities and the iniquities

of your[fn] ancestors together,”

says the LORD.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and reproached me on the hills,

I will reward them fully[fn]

for their former deeds.”

“ ‘But return to my place that was at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first. See what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.

“They have returned to the iniquities of their ancestors who refused to obey my words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant I made with their ancestors.

“I will first repay them double for their iniquity and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”

A glorious throne

on high from the beginning

is the place of our sanctuary.

“I will restore the fortunes[fn] of Judah and of Israel and will rebuild them as in former times.

“you will die peacefully. There will be a burning ceremony for you just like the burning ceremonies for your ancestors, the kings of old who came before you. “Oh, master! ” will be the lament for you, for I have spoken this word. This is the LORD’s declaration.’ ”

“Take another scroll, and once again write on it the original words that were on the original scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned.