Ezra 7:28

and, unto me, hath extended lovingkindness, before the king and his counselors, yea all the valiant captains of the king,—I, therefore have emboldened myself, according to the hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and gathered out of Israel, chief men, to go up with me.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

In Context

27Blessed be Yahweh, God of our fathers,—who hath put the like of this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of Yahweh, which is in Jerusalem;

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28Then he said—Not Jacob, shall thy name be called any more, but Israel,—For thou hast contended with God and with men and hast prevailed.

Ezra 5:5Nevertheless, the eye of their God, was upon the elders of Judah, and they did not forbid them, until the matter, unto Darius, should come,—and, then, answer be returned by letter, concerning this.

Ezra 7:9For, on the first of the first month, was a beginning made of coming up from Babylon,—and, on the first of the fifth month, entered he into Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

Ezra 8:15And I gathered them together, unto the river that cometh into Ahava, and we encamped there three days,—and I informed myself among the people and the priests, and, of the sons of Levi, found I none there.

Ezra 9:9For, bondmen, we are, but, in our bondage, hath our God not forsaken us,—but extended unto us lovingkindness before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up on high the house of our God, to raise up the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:8also a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the park that belongeth unto the king, that he may give me timber to build up the gates of the fortress which pertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house whereinto I shall enter. And the king gave me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 7:28

Ezra's Thankfulness to God. ( b. c. 457.) 27 Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem: 28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me. Ezra cannot proceed in his story without inserting his thankful… Read the whole commentary →

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