The Hand of God
In Ezra 7, during the time of Artaxerxes, Ezra was a scribe among his people in Babylonia. He ended up being sent by the king to Jerusalem to the remnant who had gone and rebuilt the temple in order to teach the people the Law of the LORD, but there’s something very distinct that we see recur throughout this chapter:
“He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.” (Ezra 7:6)
“For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the…
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