rwbs - Ezra:7:11-28

rwbs@Ezra:7:11 @ Now this the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.

rwbs@Ezra:7:12 @ Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect, and now. (note:)unto…: or, to Ezra the priest, a perfect scribe of the law of the God of heaven, peace, etc(:note)

rwbs@Ezra:7:13 @ I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and his priests and Levites, in my realm, who are disposed of their own freewill to go to Jerusalem, go with thee.

rwbs@Ezra:7:14 @ Forasmuch as thou art sent by the king, and by his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which in thy hand; (note:)of the king: Chaldee, from before the king(:note)

rwbs@Ezra:7:15 @ And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation in Jerusalem,

rwbs@Ezra:7:16 @ And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which in Jerusalem:

rwbs@Ezra:7:17 @ That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which in Jerusalem.

rwbs@Ezra:7:18 @ And whatever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do after the will of your God.

rwbs@Ezra:7:19 @ The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

rwbs@Ezra:7:20 @ And whatever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow out of the king’s treasure house.

rwbs@Ezra:7:21 @ And I, I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

rwbs@Ezra:7:22 @ To an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing. (note:)measures: Chaldee, cors(:note)

rwbs@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? (note:)Whatsoever…: Chaldee, Whatsoever is of the decree(:note)

rwbs@Ezra:7:24 @ Also we inform you, that concerning any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

rwbs@Ezra:7:25 @ And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that in thy hand, set magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know not.

rwbs@Ezra:7:26 @ And whoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. (note:)to banishment: Chaldee, to rooting out(:note)

rwbs@Ezra:7:27 @ Blessed the LORD God of our fathers, who hath put as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which in Jerusalem:

rwbs@Ezra:7:28 @ And hath extended mercy to me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God upon me, and I gathered out of Israel chief men to go up with me.