28 and (A)has extended favor to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty officials. So I was strengthened according to (B)the hand of the Lord my God that was upon me, and I gathered [a]leading men from Israel to go up with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:28 Lit heads

28 and who has extended his good favor(A) to me before the king and his advisers and all the king’s powerful officials. Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me,(B) I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

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