Ezr 7:15 | TNotes | STEP | 7:15 who lives in Jerusalem: God’s Temple was located there. Artaxerxes probably thought that he was helping rebuild the house of Jerusalem’s local deity (cp. 1 Kgs 8:27 ; Ps 24:1 ).

b1 Kgs 8:27►

cPs 24:1►

‏ Ezra 7:15

7:15 ^a who lives in Jerusalem: God’s Temple was located there. Artaxerxes probably thought that he was helping rebuild the house of Jerusalem’s local deity (cp. 1 Kgs 8:27 ^b; Ps 24:1 ^c).