Ezr 7:11, 9:9 | ESV | STEP | This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest , the scribe , a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel :

Ezra 7:11

11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel:

Ezra 9:9

9 ^aFor we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, ^bbut has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection ^{▼▼Hebrew a wall} in Judea and Jerusalem.