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18And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.

Ezra 7:18

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Matthew Henry

(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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