The King’s Kindness

27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (A)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, 28 and (B)has extended favor to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty officials. So I was strengthened according to (C)the hand of the Lord my God that was upon me, and I gathered [a]leading men from Israel to go up with me.

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  1. Ezra 7:28 Lit heads

The King’s Kindness

27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (A)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, 28 and (B)has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to (C)the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered [a]leading men from Israel to go up with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:28 Lit heads