Ezra 8:23

Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,.... That were in company with him; so that it seems there were more than the two mentioned, Ezr 8:2, very probably their families, or some of their…

Ezra has procured Levites to go along with him; but what will that avail, unless he have God with him? That is therefore his chief care. In all our ways we must acknowledge God, and in those…

for this either prayed for this favour, or as in Ezr 9:15, -because of this", i.e. on the ground of this mingled faith and self-abasement.

and he was intreated of us This phrase occurs also in Gen…