Ezra.7.28

Ezra 7:28

KJV

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 was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Ezra Blesses God

Cross References

Ezra 5:5

KJV

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.

Temple Rebuilding Resumes

Ezra 7:6

KJV

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

Ezra Arrives in Jerusalem

Ezra 7:14

KJV

Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

Artaxerxes’ Letter for Ezra

Ezra 8:1

KJV

These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

The Exiles Who Returned with Ezra

Ezra 8:18

KJV

And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

Ezra Sends for the Levites

Ezra 9:9

KJV

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Ezra’s Prayer of Confession

Psalm 109:12

KJV

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.