Genesis 32:11
11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for aI fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.Genesis 32:28
28Then he said, b“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, ▼▼ Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
for dyou have striven with God and ewith men, and have prevailed.” Genesis 43:14
14May fGod Almighty ▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai
hgrant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, iif I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.” Ezra 1:1
The Proclamation of Cyrus
1 jIn the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, kthat the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so lthat he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:Ezra 7:6
6this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe mskilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, nfor the hand of the Lord his God was on him.Ezra 7:27-28
27 oBlessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, pwho put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, 28 qand who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.Nehemiah 2:8
8and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of rthe fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, sfor the good hand of my God was upon me.Proverbs 21:1
1The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;he tturns it wherever he will.
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