Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
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In Context
32And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Cross References
Ezra 7:9For upon the first day of the first month he began to go from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Ezra 8:15And I assembled them at the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we abode in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Job 5:19He will deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Psalms 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Acts 25:3And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 8:25-31
Ezra's Care of the Temple Treasure. ( b. c. 457.) 24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, 25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered: 26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents, and of gold a hundred talents; 27… Read the whole commentary →