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Ezra
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Ezra
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A ready scribe in the law of Moses
The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him. Seek Him. #Jesus
JerusalemExile and returnc. 458 BC · went up to Jerusalem
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Ezra the son of Seraiah, a ready scribe in the law of Moses, who had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. In the seventh year of Artaxerxes he went up from Babylon with the king's letter; at the river of Ahava he proclaimed a fast, for he was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers, having said, 'The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him'; he weighed the silver and the gold to the priests, and they came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month. He rent his garment and mantle over the people's strange wives and fell upon his knees. On a pulpit of wood he read in the book of the law from the morning until midday, and all the people wept.
Confirmed by history: In the seventh year of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:7), a Persian king known from history (465–424 BC); he was still reading the law in Nehemiah's day (Neh 8).
Ezra's introduction A 30-second video, coming soon
The wall was your work, Nehemiah, fifty and two days, with a weapon in the other hand.
I only stood on wood and read. The people wept, then we said it together: the joy of the LORD is your strength.
I remember my own first sight of what was broken. Weep, pray, then rise — that order is the right one.
The LORD's hand is upon them that seek Him. It is not over, my friend.
