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1After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra –[#7:1 Ezr 4:7; 6:14; Neh 2:1]
Seraiah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Hilkiah’s son,
2Shallum’s son,
Zadok’s son, Ahitub’s son,
3Amariah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Meraioth’s son,
4Zerahiah’s son,
Uzzi’s son, Bukki’s son,
5Abishua’s son, Phinehas’s son,
Eleazar’s son, the chief priest Aaron’s son
6#– #came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the Lord , the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of the Lord his God was on him.[#7:6 Ezr 7:11–12,21; #7:6 Neh 2:4–8; #7:6 Ezr 7:28; 8:22; Neh 2:8,18]
7Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.[#7:7 Ezr 2:1–58; Neh 7:6–60]
8Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king.[#7:8 LXX, Syr, Vg read They]
9He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month since the gracious hand of his God was on him.[#7:9 Ezr 8:15,21,31; #7:9 Ezr 8:32; #7:9 Ezr 7:28; 8:18,31; Neh 2:8,18]
10Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord , obey it, and teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.[#7:10 Neh 8:1–8]
11This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord ’s commands and statutes for Israel:[#7:11 Ezr 7:12–26 is written in Aramaic.]
27Blessed be the Lord , the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s mind to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,[#7:27 Ezr 6:22; #7:27 Is 60:7,13]
28and who has shown favour to me before the king, his counsellors, and all his powerful officers. So I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, , and I gathered Israelite leaders to return with me.[#7:28 Ezr 9:9; #7:28 Lit because the hand of the my God was on me; #7:28 Ezr 7:6; 8:18; #7:28 Ezr 8:1–14,16]