13I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
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Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel,(he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)We have here the commission which the Persian emperor granted to Ezra, giving him authority to act for the good of the Jews; and it is very ample and full, and beyond what could have been expected. The commission runs, we suppose, in the usual form: Artaxerxes, King of kings . This however is too high a title for any mortal man to assume; he was indeed king of some kings, but to speak as if he wer…
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