Verse 28
Ezra 7:28
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God (Elohim) upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עָלַ֣/י הִטָּה חֶ֗סֶד לִ/פְנֵ֤י הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ וְ/יֽוֹעֲצָ֔י/ו וּ/לְ/כָל שָׂרֵ֥י הַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֑ים וַ/אֲנִ֣י הִתְחַזַּ֗קְתִּי כְּ/יַד יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהַ/י֙ עָלַ֔/י וָ/אֶקְבְּצָ֧/ה מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֛ל רָאשִׁ֖ים לַ/עֲל֥וֹת עִמִּֽ/י
English Translation
And I bent kindness before the king and his counselors and all the mighty men of the king, and I strengthened myself by the hand of Yahweh my God upon me, and I gathered chiefs from Israel to go up with me.
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Chapter 7 Context
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Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son...
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the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
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the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
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this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the Go...
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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singe...
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And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
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For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of th...
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For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes...
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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, e...
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Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God (Elohim) of heaven...
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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my rea...
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Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jer...
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and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God...
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and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill o...
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therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal o...
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And whatsoever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the...
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And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God (Elohim), deliver thou b...
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And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God (Elohim), which thou shalt have occasi...
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And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers that are beyond the River,...
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unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine...
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Whatsoever is commanded by the God (Elohim) of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the G...
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Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, o...
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God (Elohim) that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and ju...
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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God (Elohim), and the law of the king, let judgment be exec...
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Blessed be Jehovah, the God (Elohim) of our fathers, who hath put such a thing as this in the king’s...
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and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the kin...