Ezra 7:28 References

28 and ahas extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king's mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to bthe hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

b Ezra 5:5

Ezra 5

5 But athe eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

Other references for Ezra 7:28

a Ezra 9:9