As the hand, &c. — If God gives us his hand, we are bold and chearful: if he withdraws it, we are weak as water. Whatever service we are enabled to do for God and our generation, God must have all the glory of it.
Verse Ezra 7:28. _AND I WAS STRENGTHENED_] In what the king decreed he saw the hand of God; he therefore gave him the praise, and took courage. There is a most amiable spirit of piety in these reflec...
II. THE RETURN UNDER EZRA AND HIS REFORMATION CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The journey of Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:1)_ 2. The decree of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11) 3. Ezra's thanksgiving (Ezra 7:27)...
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. MIGHTY. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14. CHIEF. heads....
_hath extended mercy unto me_ First usage of the 1st person, which continues to close of chap. 9. -Hath extended mercy", cf. Ezra 9:9; Genesis 39:21. _his counsellers_ see on Ezra 7:14. _as the hand...
Ezra's Thanksgiving Abrupt transition from the letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra's thanks giving. Compare chap. Ezra 6:8, the transition from the quotation of Cyrus's decree to the words of Darius. These...
3. Ezra's thanksgiving and compliance TEXT, Ezra 7:27-28 27 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to adorn the house of the LORD which i...
THE JOURNEY OF EZRA TO JERUSALEM 1. Now after.. Artaxerxes] The interval of time here implied amounted to more than fifty years, from the sixth year of Darius (516 b.c.) to the seventh year of Artaxer...
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 7 In the first 6 Chapter s of the Book of Ezra, we read about the people who returned from *exile. We read how they built the *temple of...
AND HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO ME. — The honour done to himself before the council of Persia he ascribes to the mercy of God. Once more we have an anticipation of the journey, with a parenthesis interve...
וְ עָלַ֣י הִטָּה ־חֶ֗סֶד לִ פְנֵ֤י הַ
A KING'S BOUNTY Ezra 7:19 Ezra's commission was very ample. Those who officiated or assisted in Temple service were exonerated from taxation. Full permission was given to take all voluntary gifts of...
Here begins the second section of the Book, that which gathers around the doings of Ezra. Between the close of the last chapter and the commencement of this sixty years had passed away. To a very grea...
REFLECTIONS How truly lovely doth Ezra the scribe appear in the view here given of him! a scribe indeed well instructed in the law of God. Trained in a foreign land, and under captivity, yet still his...
How beautiful is this ascription of praise in the mouth and heart of Ezra. How lovely is it to see when men have grace to pass by second causes and look wholly at the first. Joseph's history affords a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7 AND 8. Alas! this was not the end of the history. God, in His goodness, must still watch over the unfaithfulness and the failures of His people, even when t...
AND HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO ME, BEFORE THE KING AND HIS COUNSELLORS, AND BEFORE ALL THE KING'S MIGHTY PRINCES,.... Before Artaxerxes, his seven counsellors, Ezra 7:14 and the nobles of his realm, in...
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 toge...
_And hath extended mercy to me_, &c. The king, in the honour he did Ezra, we may suppose, had an eye to his merits, and preferred him because he judged him to be an intelligent, dis-interested, and up...
1 Ezra goeth vp to Ierusalem. 11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra. 27 Ezra blesseth God for his fauour. [THE KINGS LETTER.] 1 NOW after these things, in the reigne of Artaxerxes king...
THE LETTER OF ARTAXERXES...
and hath extended mercy unto me before the king and his counselors v. 14. AND BEFORE ALL THE KING'S MIGHTY PRINCES. Thus gratefully Ezra acknowledged the kindness and goodness of God. AND I WAS STRENG...
EZRA'S RETURN TO JERUSALEM (vv. 1-10) These first ten verses form a brief introduction as to who Ezra was and the fact of his coming to Jerusalem. Details are given after this, verses 11 to 26 quoti...
27,28 Two things Ezra blessed God for: 1. For his commission. If any good appear in our hearts, or in the hearts of others, we must own that God put it there, and bless him; it is he that worketh in...
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Ezra 7:28 extended H5186 (H8689) mercy H2617 before H6440 king H4428 counselors H3289 (H8802) kings H4428 mighty...
EZRA EXPRESSES HIS APPRECIATION TO YHWH (EZRA 7:27). From this point on we have a passage (Ezra 7:27 to Ezra 9:15) where Ezra uses the first person singular in what are often called ‘The Ezra Memoirs'...
ALMOST SIXTY YEARS AFTER THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE EZRA, AN EXPERT IN THE LAW, COMES TO JERUSALEM BRINGING WITH HIM A GROUP OF FELLOW-JEWS AND MUCH TREASURE FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD, BEING AUTHORISED BY...
CONTENTS: Ezra's expedition to Jerusalem and his thanksgiving. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Artaxerxes. CONCLUSION: God is able to do for us exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. When mag...
Ezra 7:1. _Ezra the son,_ or grandson of _Seraiah._ His genealogy was of the highpriests' line in several ages; and the dignity of his birth might be one cause of his being so much noticed while in Ba...
_Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart._ KINGS OF PERSIA--NURSING FATHERS OF THE CHURCH The book of Ezra contains an interesting record of th...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 7:1 Ezra the Priest Comes to Jerusalem to Establish the Law of Moses. The text now skips ahead 57 years (see note on 7:1–7). Ezra the scribe is charged by King Artaxerxes to establis...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] We now enter upon the second and concluding part of this book, which treats of the return of certain Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem under Ezra, and the reformation whi...
EXPOSITION THE DECREE OF ARTAXERXES WITH RESPECT TO EZRA (Ezra 7:11). The present decree was of the nature of a _firman _granted to an individual. It embodied, in the first place, a certain number of...
Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:1) Who is Longimanus of the secular history. Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of...
2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:18; Ezra 5:5; Ezra 7:14; Ezra 7:6;...