1 Esdras 8:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶ and who honoured me in the sight of the king and his counsellors and all his Friends and nobles. ²⁷ I was encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and I gathered men from Israel to go up with me.’

The Leaders Who Returned

²⁸ These are the leaders, according to their ancestral houses and their groups, who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes: