Verse 28
Ezra 7:28
King James Version
28
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God (Elohim)
was 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
1
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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6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he
was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God (E...
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7
And there went up
some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singe...
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8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which
was in the seventh year of the king.
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9
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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10
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do
it, and to teach in Israel st...
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11
Now this
is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe,
e...
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12
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God (Elohim) of heaven,...
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13
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and
of
his priests and Levites, in my realm...
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14
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah an...
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15
And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the Go...
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16
And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill o...
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17
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and t...
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18
And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and t...
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19
The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God (Elohim),
those deliver...
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20
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God (Elohim), which thou shalt have occasi...
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21
And I,
even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which
are beyond the river...
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22
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of w...
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23
Whatsoever is commanded by the God (Elohim) of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of th...
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24
Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or m...
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25
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God (Elohim), that
is in thine hand, set magistrates and jud...
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26
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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27
Blessed
be the LORD God (Elohim) of our fathers, which hath put
such a thing as this in the king’s h...
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28
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s migh...