2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 191
8 : E Z R A
A R R I V E S
I N
Y E R U S A L E M
CHAPTER 8:
1 Ezra brings the King’s Commission to
build. 8 The copy of it. 28 He declares the
names and number of those that came with
him: 61 And his journey. 71 He laments the
sins of his people, 96 And swears the Priests
to put away their strange wives.
Ezra Arrives in Jerusalem
Esdras is the
Latin form of
Ezra.
Azarias.
Azarias,
Meraioth,
Uzzi. Some
copies want
these three
names, Heb.
was first,
Ezra 7:1.
Nethinims.
1 And after these things, when
Artaxerxes the king of the
Persians reigned, came Ezra
the son of Seraiah, the son of
Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
the son of Shallum,
2 The son of Zadok, the
son of Ahitub, the son of
Amariah, the son of Uzzi, the
son of Memeroth, the son of
Zaraias, the son of Sauias,
the son of Bukki, the son of
Abishua, the son of Phineas,
the son of Eleazar, the son of
Aaron the chief Priest.
3 This Ezra went up from
Babylon, as a Scribe being
very ready in the Law of
Moses, that was given by the
Elohim of Israel,
4 And the king did honor him:
for he found grace in his sight
in all his requests.
5 There went up with him
also certain of the children
of Israel, of the Priests, of the
Levites, of the holy Singers,
Porters, and Ministers of the
Temple, unto Yerusalem,
6 In the seventh year of the
W I T H
R E B U K E
reign of king Artaxerxes, in
the fifth month, (this was the
king’s seventh year) for they
went from Babylon in the first
Abib 1.
day of the first month, and
came to Yerusalem, according
Ezra
to the prosperous journey See
7:7-9.
Or, success.
which Yahuah gave them.
7 For Ezra had very great skill,
so that he omitted nothing of
the Law and Commandments
of Yahuah, but taught all
Israel the Ordinances and
Judgments.
The King’s Mandate
8 Now the copy of the
Commission
which
was
written from Artaxerxes the
King, and came to Ezra the
priest and reader of the Law
of Yahuah, is this that follows. Or, decree.
9 King Artaxerxes unto Ezra
the Priest and reader of the
Law of Yahuah, send greeting.
10 Having determined to deal
graciously, I have given order,
that such of the nation of the
Yahudim, and of the Priests
and Levites being within our
Realm, as are willing and
desirous, should go with you
unto Yerusalem.
11 As many therefore as
have a mind thereunto, let
them depart with you, as
it has seemed good both to
me, and my seven friends the
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