Ezr 7:28 | NASB1995 | STEP | and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes . Thus I was strengthened according to the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

Ezra 7:28

28 and ^ahas extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to ^bthe hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered ^{▼▼ Lit heads}leading men from Israel to go up with me.