Going Home Again: A Kids Bible Story from Ezra About Coming Home, Rebuilding the Temple, and Starting Again. KJV Verses Included. Ages 3-8

The city was gone, and then one day a king said they could go back.Grandparents had grown old a long way from home. Their grandchildren had never seen the place at all. Then the word came down the street: pack up, you may go. So they loaded carts, wrapped the gold and silver bowls in cloth, and walked for four months across dry country to a town they only knew from stories.What they found was rubble. Broken walls, weeds in the gateway, no roof anywhere. They built an altar out of loose stones the very first week, before a single house went up, because they wanted to say thank you before they said anything else. When the foundation of the new temple was laid, the young people cheered so loudly you could hear it for miles, and the old people who remembered the first temple sat down and cried. Nobody could tell the two sounds apart.Then the neighbours complained, the letters went out, and the work stopped for sixteen years. This is a book about picking the tools back up.Inside this book: - A long walk home to a city nobody under fifty had ever seen- An altar of loose stones built before anybody built a house- Trumpets and cymbals, and the day the cheering and the crying sounded the same- Sixteen quiet years, and two old men who told everybody to start again- A prayer beside a river instead of a request for soldiers- A King James Version verse to learn together, with the reference- Three questions, words to know, a short prayer, and a Read It Yourself page for ages 8 to 12Written for ages 3 to 8 to be read aloud, with a back page of King James Version passages for older readers of 8 to 12 to look up on their own.Book 15 of 66 in KJV Bible Adventures for Kids - one picture book for every book of the Bible, in order, from Genesis to Revelation.From Guy Charlie Books, a small, veteran-owned publisher.