Blessedbe the Lord God of our fathers R.V. Blessed be the lord, the God of our fathers. A similar phrase occurs in Ezra 8:28; Ezra 10:11. We find it elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 20:6. Cf. Acts 3:13.

The thanksgiving of Ezra relates to the blessing which had been vouchsafed not to himself personally but to the whole nationality.

hath putinto the heart as in Nehemiah 2:12; Nehemiah 7:5; 1 Kings 10:24.

to beautify This effect of the king's bounty would result from the general grant contained in Ezra 7:14-20. The actual adornment of the Temple had not been specified.

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