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Ezra’s Response to the Letter

27 Blessed be the Lord God of our ancestors,
    who placed this decree[a] into the king’s heart
        to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem
28 and who showed gracious love to me before the king,
        before his advisors,
        and before all of the king’s mighty officials.

And I was strengthened because the hand of the Lord my God was upon me. So I gathered together the leaders of Israel to go with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:27 The Heb. lacks decree

27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart(A) to bring honor(B) to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way 28 and who has extended his good favor(C) to me before the king and his advisers and all the king’s powerful officials. Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me,(D) I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

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