Ezra 8:22 References
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For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to protect us from the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, "aThe hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but bHis power and His anger are against all those who cforsake Him."
a Ezra 7:6, Ezra 7:9, Ezra 7:28
Ezra 7
6
This Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a ascribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all he requested bbecause the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.
Ezra 7
9
For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, abecause the good hand of his God was upon him.