Ezr 7:28 | NASB2020 | STEP | and 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 the hand of the Lord my God that was upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

Ezra 7:28

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