Ezra 7:8

And he entered Jerusalem, in the fifth month,—the same, was the seventh year of the king.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

In Context

7So then there came up some of the sons of Israel, and some of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem,—in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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.

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Cross References

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.

Esther 2:16So then Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus, into his royal house, in the tenth month, the same, was the month Tebeth,—in the seventh year of his reign.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 7:2-11

Ezra's Arrival at Jerusalem. ( b. c. 457.) 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, 5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: 6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in… Read the whole commentary →

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