Genesis 32:28
28Then he said, a“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, ▼▼ Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
for cyou have striven with God and dwith men, and have prevailed.” Ezra 6:22
22And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread eseven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful fand had turned the heart of gthe king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.Ezra 7:9
9For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, hfor the good hand of his God was on him.Ezra 7:28
28 iand 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.Ezra 8:18
18And jby the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of kMahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;Ezra 8:22
22For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, l“The hand of our God is for good on mall who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”Ezra 8:31
31Then we departed from the river Ahava non the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. oThe hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.Nehemiah 1:10-11
10 pThey are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 11O Lord, qlet your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”Now I was rcupbearer to the king.
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 sthe 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, tfor the good hand of my God was upon me.Nehemiah 2:12
12Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.Nehemiah 2:18
18And I told them uof the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” vSo they strengthened their hands for the good work.Nehemiah 4:15
The Work Resumes
15When our enemies heard that it was known to us wand that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
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