Ezra 6:21-22

Expanded Bible

²¹ So all the ·people [sons] of Israel who returned from ·captivity [exile] ·ate the Passover lamb [^Late]. So did the people who had ·given up the unclean ways of their non-Jewish neighbors [separated themselves from the impurity/pollution of the nations] in order to ·worship [seek] the Lord, the God of Israel. ²² For seven days they celebrated with joy the Feast of Unleavened Bread [Ex. 12:17–20; 34:18]. The Lord had made them ·happy [rejoice] by ·changing the mind [turning the heart] of the king of Assyria [^Ca deliberate anachronism, since Assyria had fallen earlier in 612 bc] so that he helped them in the work on the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of the God of Israel.