¹⁷ For God has put it in their hearts to carry out His purpose by ^[a]agreeing together to surrender their kingdom to the beast, until the [prophetic] words of God will be fulfilled.

The King’s Kindness

²⁷ Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers [said Ezra], who put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn and glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,