18aAccording to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a bman of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men;
a
Ezra 7:6, 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
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.