Ezra 7:8 KJV — MannaFest

Ezra 7:8

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

KJV

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ASV

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

WEB

Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

YLT

And he cometh in to Jerusalem in the fifth month, that is in the seventh year of the king,

DBT

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

About this book

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Ezra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.

Author: Ezra (traditional); the book uses first-person narrative in chs. 7–10
Date: Events 538–458 BC; compilation c. mid-5th century BC

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5 verses on the floor

Daniel 9:25
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Ezra 8:32
And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Esther 2:16
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Ezra 9:9
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

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The commission runs, we suppose, in the usual form: Artaxerxes, King of kings. This however is too high a title for any mortal man to assume; he was indeed king of some kings, but to speak as if he were king of all kings was to usurp his prerogative who hath all power both in heaven and in earth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Some think that this Artaxerxes was the same with that Darius whose decree we had ( ch. vi. ), and that Ezra came the very year after the temple was finished: that was the sixth year, this the seventh (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When he went many more went with him, because they desired not to stay in Babylon when he had gone thence, and because they would venture to dwell in Jerusalem when he had gone thither. How kind his God was to him. He obtained this favour from his king and country by the good hand of the Lord that was upon him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

As he left Babylon on the Jewish New Year's Day (Ezr 7:9), the journey must have occupied not less than four months (a long period), but it was necessary to move at a slow pace and by short, easy stages, as he had to conduct a large caravan of poor people, including women, children, and all their household gear (see on Ezr 8:24).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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